re: pizza (NAC)

[Joe Elliott <jee@domain.elided>]

<rant>

At 1:59 PM +0000 9/20/02, Luca wrote:
> Anyway you forgot PIZZA
While I'm in an angsty mood--another thing that bothers me a lot more 
than it should--why the hell can Americans pronounce PIZZA correctly 
on a daily basis, but even when they're in a restaurant ordering 
pizza they can't make the connection and pronounce MOTO GUZZI 
correctly??

I mean, Bur-toan, Lan-see-uh, Lambra-ghini, Odd-E, Murker, and Porsh 
I can pretty much deal with, Puget and Renalt even, but since people 
pronounce the Italian zz correctly every day, why does Moto Guzzi 
elude them?  And I'm getting tired of this "Aprilla" nonsense, too--I 
would have thought it was entirely obvious that Aprilia essentially 
has four syllables!

</rant>
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