When did Turin becom a bad Ford
When did the Italian city of Turin, as in the Shroud of Turin, become Torino? Even on maps it's called Turin. What made the U.S. media start calling it Torino? I guess its's for the same reason that they actually report on Women's ice hockey. So politically correct.
posted by RBM @ 10:01 AM
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Same reason newscasters dislocate their jaws trying to pronounce Guatemala and Guadalajara. Because they're idiots.
I spent 6 years in Italy, and always called Torino by its name, Torino, whether speaking in English or Italian. The Shroud of Turin is located in Torino, just as the Council of Trent was held in the city of Trento about 500 years ago. I always referred to Venice, Rome, Naples, and Florence by their English names, and Milano, Torino, and Trento by their Italian names. Livorno and Leghorn got equal billing, and Villefranche, the French port, (once the home port of the US Sizth Fleet) was almost universally referred to as "Villafranca" among English speakers.
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