Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 06:22:18 -0500 From: "G. Adam Stanislav" <adam@whizkidtech.net> To: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be>, Marco Molteni <molter@sofia.csl.sri.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, giffunip@asme.org Subject: Re: BSDCon East Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20000410062218.008786c0@mail85.pair.com> In-Reply-To: <v0422080cb5175c1ae9c9@[195.238.21.91]> References: <20000409124408.C15826@sofia.csl.sri.com> <8cgj1a$313f$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> <v04220805b511f7c7e2a6@[195.238.1.121]> <8cj1cg$1gse$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> <xzpya6qp2rq.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <v04220806b5137b59347a@[195.238.1.121]> <xzpn1n5q1ny.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20000407102159.B8417@sofia.csl.sri.com> <38EE4C97.B9B83C7A@asme.org> <20000407143054.A9684@sofia.csl.sri.com> <3.0.6.32.20000407225406.0087de50@mail85.pair.com> <20000409124408.C15826@sofia.csl.sri.com>
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At 12:27 10-04-2000 +0200, Brad Knowles wrote:
> I am familiar with American-style pizza (both Chicago and New=20
>York types ;-), and the musical term "mezzo" as applied to "piano"=20
>and "fort=E9" to indicate the volume level at which a particular=20
>section should be played.
>
> To my ear, these two uses of the doubled "z" sound exactly the same.
Well, in Italy and in America not only is pizza not the same thing, the
word is also pronounced differently.
At any rate, the difference between the zz is that in mezzo it is voiced,
in pizza it is not. In other words, pizza is pronounced pits-tsa and mezzo
medz-dzo (using English transliteration for Italian pronunciation, not for
English pronunciation).
By the way, I like the American pizza, too. :)
Cheers,
Adam
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