Re: OT strummin' on the old banjo

On 9/8/07, Douglas Koller <laokou@...> wrote:
> FWIW, I didn't find the plural of "arpeggio" in my _Collins Compact Italian
> Dictionary_, but I *did* find the word for "royal," "regio," and it gives the
> masc. pl. as "regi." (regio, regia, regi, regie) By analogy, we might assume
> (though when we assume...) the same applies to "arpeggio."

That would make sense.  The -i- in "arpeggio" is just an orthographic
convention to keep the <g> representing /dZ/ instead of /g/.   The
word is /ar'pEdZ:o/, so the plural is logically /ar'pEdZ:i/, which
would be spelled "arpeggi".

But I still wonder about words that end with something other than c or
g followed by an -io. :)

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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>