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Old March 10th, 2008, 05:43 PM   #361
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But isn't "Annunziata" a female singular?
As told by Pinico it could also be Santissima (very saint)...
Italy is a strange place, a saint could be more than a saint ( there's something else more than a saint? God?)
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Old March 10th, 2008, 06:20 PM   #362
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SantiSsimi
Actually this is uncorrect: strangely many people in Italy incurred in this mistake

But SS stays for Santi

You just have to ask if there are Saints 'more Saint' than other ones, as Santissimi should stand for 'very Saints'... maybe Saint Antony is less Saint than Saint Paul or so?

Another thing: everytime you'll find SS as abbreviation you also could see two names following (frequentely SS Pietro e Paolo - Saint Peter and and Saint Paul) and never - never!- just one name
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Old March 10th, 2008, 06:30 PM   #363
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Old March 10th, 2008, 07:31 PM   #364
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Yeah, in fact SS. (all capital letters) could mean also Santissimo/a (very saint).
Ss. means Santi (saints).

There are very few SS. (SS. Annunziata, SS. Sacramento). It's hard not to mix them up even for us.
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Old March 10th, 2008, 07:33 PM   #365
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The first maybe...
The final.

Proff. plural for prof.
Sigg. plural for sig.

Etc.
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Old March 10th, 2008, 08:17 PM   #366
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But now we want more pictures... no more saints but art!
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Old March 10th, 2008, 11:24 PM   #367
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69. Lake Maggiore and Borromee Islands.


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Old March 12th, 2008, 12:19 AM   #368
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oh, the Borromeo girls' private properties...priceless.
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Old March 12th, 2008, 02:30 AM   #369
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Yeah, in fact SS. (all capital letters) could mean also Santissimo/a (very saint).
Ss. means Santi (saints).
Hey, grazie mille!
I've spent sleepless nights over linguistic issues like this.
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Old March 12th, 2008, 04:20 PM   #370
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70. Borghetto - Valeggio sul Mincio, Verona

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Old March 13th, 2008, 04:46 PM   #371
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68. The Italian Civilization building in the Eur district of Rome. The inscription on the top reads: "A people of poets, artists, heroes, saints, thinkers, scientists, navigators, flyers".

Although orginally intended to be serious, soon everybody has become to smile at such a pompous inscription, and the Italians today love to call themselves "a people of poets, artists and heroes" with sarcastic and self-deprecative purposes.

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Not to mention the land of small penises, judging from the sculpture.
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Old March 13th, 2008, 08:28 PM   #373
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The final.

Proff. plural for prof.
Sigg. plural for sig.

Etc.
You're right. I was thinking about doubling just the first letter, such as in pp. for pagine.
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Casteddu sound Sicilian, is that right?
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it could be also Sardinian (Castieddu sounds more sicilian to me)
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Old March 14th, 2008, 01:12 AM   #376
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Casteddu sound Sicilian, is that right?
Casteddu is sardinian for Cagliari,capital city of sardinia.
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72. Malcesine - Lake Garda

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Great photo of Garda Lake! Thanks Alter-Ego!
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Casteddu sound Sicilian, is that right?
No, it's the Sardinian name of this city.
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