A smallish round-up of words and phrases appropriate for this week. As you may know, the period of Lent begins tomorrow, when Christians across the globe will fast (if they are particularly devout) or symbolically give something up in the forty day run-up to Easter. So, today is Shrove Tuesday – well, for Brits and [...]
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A really quick one today. Most will know that ciao (pronounced chow) means goodbye in Italian. Many will also know that it also means ‘hello’ in Italian. But why use the same word for both? It comes from Venetian – a dialect of Italian spoken by around five million people around the Adriatic, including Italy, [...] |
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