A-Z of English words with surprising origins
On 28 Nov, 17:20, Giovanni Drogo wrote:
On Fri, 28 Nov 2008, Hatunen wrote:
consonants are significant, I'm always puzzled by the fact in English
you write "regatta" with 2 t's, while in Italian we write "regata" with
one t.
The answer is quite simple: "regatta" is an English word,
"regata" an Italian word.
As "film", "pullover", "box", "murales" and "peones" are all italian
words ? :-)
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No. We Anglicise our borrowings and
they stop being borrowings.
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