And your arsenal, ballot, casino, contraband and gazette; your ghetto, imbroglio, gondola, lagoon, lido, lotto, marzipan, pantaloon, pistachio, quarantine, regatta, scampi, sequin and zany.
Oh, those zany Venetians! Those are some of the words that, originally Venetian, are now common currency in English. The Venetian language is actually older than Italian, an artificially created language based [...]
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Thank Venice for your artichoke.
Posted in Italy, tagged Italian, Italy, language, romance languages, venice on January 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
