Italian words which sound or look similar to English words

 Here are some of the words I have learned recently from Duolingo. I found some of them had obvious connections with similar or longer English words. When I was stumped, I asked my husband and he added a couple more useful suggestions. Notice that the Italian words usually end with a vowel, a, o, e, i. Sometimes the last consonant is dropped, leaving the Italian word ending in a vowel.

Italian - English

farmacia - pharmacy (sounds the same, ph=f) farmaci-a

dito  - finger (like digit) dit -o

ha - has (she has, consonant dropped)

lei - she (To remember the letters, like the French elle, using the letters l and e. Il is he, so you add e to get the feminine lei, and reverse the letter il for he to get lei for her, putting her letter e in the middle of the l and i. Or using the sounds to remember, I remember, 'he was ill and she lay down with him.')

Medico - doctor, in the medical profession, prescribes medicine medic-o

(le) pareti - walls (like partition, starts par, includes the letter t, Italian ends with i , i being plural like the word spaghetti)

pericolo - danger, peril, something perilous pericol -o

preferisco - I prefer (My memory aid is ,'I prefer San Francisco - preferisco San Francisco')

sei - are you? (I rmember, 'Say, are you ...?'

sforzi - effort or force - all have the letters for, in Italian add a hiss at the start and the vowel i at the end sforz - i

vivace - lively, vivacious vivac - e

English - Italian

are you? - sei

danger - pericolo

doctor - medico

effort / force - sforzi

finger - dito

has - ha

I prefer - preferisco

Pharmacy - farmacia

she - lei

vivacious - vivace

walls - paretti

Glossary (mini dictionary of words used in a document)

vowel - voiced sound, a e i o u (and sounds with added y, eg ay)

consonant - what goes with the (vowel) sound, or stops it, usually using the tongue or lips, b, c, d, f, g, h, j, k, l, m, n, p , q, r s, t v, w, x, z

e.g. Latin for for example

Useful Websites

Duolingo - Italian and other languages

Wiki - consonants

Wiki - vowels

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Memories Of Old Huntingdon, Ivy-Covered Old Bridge Hotel, Walls, and Three Bridges

The river Ouse with traffic hurtling across the new bridge past the peaceful swans below.

The Old Bridge Hotel.

The Old Bridge Hotel Wine Shop.

The pedestrian only bridge.

The swan swims towards us.

The swan passes under the arch of the old bridge.

The River Ouse risen in the rain under the old bridge's arches in April 2018. We drove to see the flooding and found the roads closed.

The sign telling you that the A1 takes you to Huntingdon, which also has a mainline station, and that the Huntingdon area was chartered way back in the thirteenth century.

Useful Websites
To visit the Old Bridge Hotel wine shop and restaurant and hotel:
http://www.huntsbridge.com
To buy their wine online:
http://www.oldbridgewine.co.uk
http://visitbritain.com

Author
Angela Lansbury, Travel writer and phtographer, author and speaker. Please share links to your favourite blogs.

See The Bank Of England And You'll Know Why We Say, 'Safe As The Bank Of England'.

Bank Of England's Huge Wall. The Bank of England wall is on the left. Bank station, exit one, Central line, is on the right at the edge of the pavement with the barrier. Photograph by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

Problem
How do you get to and into the Bank of England?

Answers
With difficulty. If you just want to learn about it, go to the Bank of England Museum.

Is there any reason why you should go to the Bank of England? If you have found old out-of-date notes which are no longer legal tender, you can still exchange them at the Bank of England. The day after the Easter Bank holiday, the bank had a one-hour queue (line up).

You can also look for information and download forms online. You might be able to post your old money - if you trust the post office. You are often told not to send cash in the post. Out-of-date money is still cash. I'd photograph it with the serial numbers. But I'd still rather go or send somebody trustworthy to deliver in person.

I was in central London recently and photographed the Bank of England. I had imagined the entrance was just like a High Street bank. I hadn't realised the walls were so high, windowless, and so extensive, more like a castle than a local shop.

The Bank Of England walls seem to go on for miles. Photograph by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

I bet they have loads of leaflets and I'm looking forward to going back to both the Bank of England and the entrance and the Bank of England Museum, which I have seen before, but banking is in constant state of flux - with debate on at the moment about discontinuing the one penny and two penny coins, so whenever you last went, within six months there will probably be something new to see and learn.

The nearest station is Bank. This is on several lines, four - Central, DLR, Northern city branch, Waterloo and City. If you are carrying heavy luggage, It links by underground walkway to Circle and District lines but quite a long walk. Bank has three concourses. If you are meeting somebody or changing at this station en route to somewhere else allow extra time or check your choice of routes.

Bank station is only one stop along from St Paul's, so you can combine a trip here to the Bank area with photographing the outside of other central London landmarks, or visiting cathedrals and museums.

Useful Websites For Travellers
General Bank Of England information and links:
https://www.bankofengland.co.uk

Visiting The Bank of England

• Threadneedle Street, London, EC2R 8AH
  Switchboard: +44(0)20 3461 4444
  Enquiries: +44(0)20 3461 4878
• Visiting the museum
  Bartholomew Lane, London, EC2R 8AH
  Visit Museum Website
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_England_Museum
• https://www.visitlondon.com/things-to-do/place/611007-bank-of-england-museum
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• Visiting London
• https://www.visitlondon.com
• Destinations, tickets and more.

(tfl stand for Transport for London)

• tfl.gov.uk
• tfl.gov.uk/emailupdates
• tfl.gov.uk/socialmedia (Facebook; Twitter; YouTube)

www.londontravelwatch.org.uk
tfl.gov.uk/trafficnews
TFL announcements:
tfl.gov.uk/news

Travel news and features;
metro@tfl.gov.uk

Visiting the UK 

• https://www.visitbritain.com/gb/en#FdG3KowBOTOsZFfc.97
• Information, tickets and discounted combined tickets
• https://www.visitbritainshop.com/world/

Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and phtographer, author and speaker. Please share links to your favourite posts.
See my previous posts on the bank of England, outdated money, sights to see in London.