And he shook hands with Angela Merker.

Maltese dictionaries,(e.g. Aquilina) accept arjuplan as a variant of the more common ajruplan.

In Italian it’s spelled aeroplano but Italians never pronounce it as ‘eroplano’; it’s invariably ”areoplano’, at least colloquially.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=datGWzKyd8k

(the word is at 5 seconds)

Small correction. The Greek root is aeros actually (or aeres, with the second ‘e’ as an eta – a long e, depending on which dialect you’re using)

And the Italians use ar-e-oh, not ah-eh-rio, not because they cannot pronounce it, but because of their acquisition of the word. In latin it was aeris, the ae was pronounced as /ee/ so it became eeris. Then they added the o, muddled from the Greek, making it eerios and finally lost the ability to make a distinction between /ee/ and /i/, hence their problems with live (as in place of residence) and leave (as in going somewhere else)

So your conclusion is correct, I just think the reasoning isn’t.

He must have said it 15 times in a few minutes and he dodged every question regarding how the Labour Party would improve things for the Maltese.

It’s scary to think he’ll be the next deputy prime minister.

Well done to Lou Bondi because when i switched back to find Tonio Borg on the programme the difference between the two was really evident.

Well it beats “BDOTI”…instead of PILOTI and SKAWTS..instead of SCOUTS… GOWL instead of GOWL and scores of ridiculous importations.These are not corrupted words…they are raped.

We are trying to extend a language which cannot be stretched, as long as we keep sending morons to Brussels disgusied as translators who convert English into Maltese and are proud of our language.

[Daphne – Yes, he does.]

Look it up in dictionary and find the IPA pronunciation.

aèreo [a’ɛreo] agg., s.m.

1 agg dell’aria

6 sm abbreviazione di aeroplano

from http://www.dizionario-italiano.it/definizione-lemma.php?definizione=aereo&lemma=A02D5000

However, the point here is that Anglu Farrugia is subliterate. And this we know for a fact.

They pronoune A – E. It’s not a diphthong, but two distinct vowels, like po-e-ta, Pa-o-lo, i-d-e-a etc.

The Maltese can’t pronounce two vowels one by the other, so they turn the two vowels into a diphthong: poweta / pojeta, Pawlu, ideja/idija … then the orthographic rules changed and confusion reigned …

Then your ear is not attuned to Italian.

From the Sabatini Coletti dictionary:

aereo[a-è-re-o] agg., s.• agg.

1 Fatto d’aria: spazi a.

5 Relativo agli aeromobili: flotta a.; linee a.

As you can see, it is a-e-re-o … sorry ma’am.