Talk:Giovanni Schiaparelli

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Maybe a good idea to lock this article against vandalism. It's the first link under today's Google logo. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.49.232.26 (talk) 23:14, 13 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

"Canali"

The Italian word "canali" does not mean "cats", it means "gutters" or "grooves", but is actually also applied to canal-like structures, see http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canali_artificiali. The Italian word for "cat" is "gatto", see http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gatto (the pictures speak for themselves, you don't need to speak Italian). Maybe that's where the misunderstanding lies: "gatto" (where "a" is pronounced like the "a" in "harm") sounds a lot like "gutter", but this last thing is just a guess.217.157.175.46 (talk) 03:53, 14 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]