[PRCo] Streetcar pranks

[Dwight Long]

Phil

While I could not follow most of your email, I did get it that you for some reason disparage the correct spelling of that Italian city in Campania:  the correct spelling is Napoli.

Naples is a city in Florida, USA.  

Ironically the British, who paved the way for bastardization of foreign names that did not come trippingly to their tongues, are much further along in rectifying this than are provincial Americans.  

Just another example, I suppose, of the common American failing of believing that "our way" is always the best, regardless of how it is taken by the folks who live in other places in the world.

Dwight
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: PC 
  To: Western PA Trolley discussion 
  Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2014 12:11 PM
  Subject: Re: [PRCo] Streetcar pranks


  Naples (Italian: Napoli [ˈnaːpoli] ( listen), Neapolitan: Napule [ˈnɑːpələ]; Latin: Neapolis; Ancient Greek: Νεάπολις, meaning "new city") 

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naples

  "Naples" is the title of the above article.  It is also clear that "Naples" is acceptable English while "Napoli" is strictly Italian isn't it.
  Napoli is mispelled compared to Neapolitin, Latin, and Greek as well isn't it.  The article uses "Naples" infinitely more than Napoli.
  The latter is used within a distinctly Italian context, references from Italian or Italy, and paired with Naples in picture titles.

  In the following Url "Napoli" is listed as a misspelled word isn't it (and your rail banana is on this page if it displays as it did for me:)

  http://www.spellweb.com/how-do-you-spell/naples

  Others here have observed this constant bragging of travel and correction of the alleged failures and dumbness of Americans stems
  from an inferiority complex with roots in the family, most notably a poor relationship with the father.  Strange, they say, because often
  such people brag much about this father.

  I find this difficult to accept in some ways; you are a very accomplished writer who brought us excellent books on the PCC trolleys
  didn't you.  I am unaware of other writings; maybe you can enlighten us.  Yet patterns forged as a youngster or youth often rule for
  many decades; such can be difficult to break without an open challenge so it is said.


  PC


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  On Wed, 1/29/14, Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net> wrote:

  ... Napoli (or Naples if you want to misspell it into English) ...




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