Re: skis and skies

[ Lew Lasher ]

> This year I'm trying to learn Italian, and I was pleased to see that
> Italian preserves the Norwegian pronunciation: under Italian spelling
> rules, the noun for skis or skiing is "sci" (same for singular and
> plural).  The verb is "sciare" (shee-AR-eh).

Interestingly, Norwegian does not have any verb for "skiing". We're
"walking on ski" or "driving on ski" (downhill), and it can be a bit
of a pain at times to find the right wording.


Martin
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"An ideal world is left as an exercise to the reader."
                                                 -Paul Graham, On Lisp