A Random Musing

Okay, to dispel the rumors that I'm dead, herewith one, lone, pitiful excuse for a blog entry:

Whilst waxing apoplectic today about the Terri Schiavo debacle (and although I use that word with no disrespect to this poor woman or her family, at least from a political standpoint it is exactly that), it suddenly occurred to me to think a bit about her last name. Though you'd certainly not realize it from the Americanized pronunciation "SHY-voh," it's really a perfectly good Italian word. And I suppose the pronunciation disparity is one reason that its wholly ironic meaning in Italian, where it's pronounced "ski-AH-voh," never leaped to mind.

It means, quite appropriately I think, "slave."