> On Apr 13, 2020, at 7:52 AM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Apr 13, 2020, at 7:49 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> The Italians never use "Spyder" … only people outside Italy. I always use >> the original, correct spelling. >> >> https://www.autotrader.com/car-news/heres-why-spider-and-spyder-are-spelled-differently-269195 > > Interesting, I stand corrected.
I believe (but cannot verify) that the term "spider" applied to Italian open sports cars was originally adopted for reason of its sound as an cognate to the use of the term "speedster" for similar sporty cars in English (for example, the "Auburn Boat-tailed Speedster"), since the Italian pronuncation of Spider is "speeder"… G -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
