A hat or an onion, that is the question.


On the left is a hat and on the right, an onion. Two very different things.  However, on buying my vegetables today I managed to ask for un capello (a hat), instead of una cipolla (an onion).  Apart from beginning with "c" and containing "ll" near the end, the words are not similar.  It wasn't exactly the common mix up between pesce (fish) versus pesche (peaches).

I fear the Italian language and I are going to have a very rocky relationship.



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