http://thesmediolanumlif.com/?p=38 Thes - Old English for "this", neuter of thes, of West Germanic origin: Mediolanum - old name for Milan: Lif - Old English for "life", of Germanic origin; related to Dutch lijf, German Leib 'body' Fri, 16 Nov 2018 07:21:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.41 http://thesmediolanumlif.com/?p=38#comment-7 Mon, 15 Jan 2007 18:58:48 +0000 http://thesmediolanumlif.com/?p=38#comment-7 And my Italian’s not that good that I would be able to tell the difference between the spoken ‘bresso’ and ‘presso’, so it’s a good job I wasn’t talking on the phone!

]]> http://thesmediolanumlif.com/?p=38#comment-6 Mon, 15 Jan 2007 17:37:07 +0000 http://thesmediolanumlif.com/?p=38#comment-6 Hi,
It’s me again, Joan.
Loved your story about the “Auguri district”. It reminds me of when I first arrived in Milan and was looking for somewhere to live (even a room in a flat with a family. I found an ad in teh Corriere saying “Bresso famiglia, stanza per signorina” or something to that effect and so I rang up. When I asked the lady where they were, she said: Bresso, Bresso. Yes, I replied, I realized the room was in their flat but then she explained that Bresso was a place!! This confusions comes, or those readers who don’t know Italian, that “Presso” means “with somebody, or c/o somebody and I thought that the Bresso in the ad was a misprint (used to the Grauniad!!) for Presso!!
Joan

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