Hi, Flavio, Well, I don't know how the thread started either <g>. A couple of people were arguing about King Canute. I just figured I'd rename the thread, and throw in a couple of my favourite kings!
Interesting about "Pepino", though. I ~think~ that one of the Pepins was granted some land in what is now Italy as sort of a "consolation prize" - he wasn't "good enough" to actually receive the Holy Roman Empire in it's entirety, so they gave him Italy <g>. At least I think that happened... So it would make sense that there's an Italian name for Pepin. As for what children call their, well, "parts", what can I say? I'll have to take your word on that one... Okay, back to my new CD of Latin Song in Mediaeval Finland (really, such a thing does exist, and I have it! How much of a nerd am I?). cheers, frank Flavio Minelli wrote: > Frank, > > I can't remotely understand where this thread came from* but here in > Italy "Pipino", the translation of your "Pepin", is too similar to the > common nickname used by small male children for their, well, attribute, > to be taken very seriously, much less thought as cool... ;-). > > Ciao, Flavio > > *: Well, maybe he used a K1000... -- "The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true." -J. Robert Oppenheimer
