Why, when Italian savory pie is spelled PIZZA, is the place that serves said pie spelled PIZZERIA?

[KitchenWitch]

[billyskank]

1. You wonder about this sort of shit all day long, don't you?

;)

[KitchenWitch]

2. The committee in my head does!

:D

[flvegan]

3. "pizzeria" is the proper Italian spelling.

Wiki told me so, so it must be true.

[KitchenWitch]

6. Now I knew I should have asked the Wiki!

:D

[Lil Missy]

4. How do they get no-stick teflon to stick to the pan? n/t

[nomorenomore08]

5. What about "taco" and "taqueria"?

English isn't the only language with weird spelling rules, you know.

[KamaAina]

7. In Conn. the pie itself is often spelled APIZZA

and may be pronounced "abeetz". This, I believe, is Napoletano dialect.

Also the cheese on top of the apizza may be called "scamozza" (real mozzarella, of course, being made from water buffalo milk).

Confused yet? :shrug:

edit: punctuation

[TZ]

9. Don't have anything to add but

I LOVE your new sig line!!!:rofl:

[CTyankee]

17. When I went to Sicily I asked my guide about the New Haven "apizza."

She said that Sicilian dialect dropped the L from "La pizza." Hence the "apizza."

Don't know about Napolitani dialect...

[MonkeyFunk]

8. and they sell gelato

in gelaterias.

What're they trying to pull?

[Eurobabe]

10. Don't you like Cafeterias? You know, where they serve Cafe?

:rofl:

[IntravenousDemilo]

11. For the same reason we have the noun "fire", but the adjective "fiery" rather than "firey".

That is to say, there's no real reason other than convention. An Italian would probably be better able to tell you in this case, though.

[madinmaryland]

12. You gotta stop going to the Olive Garden!!

:hide:

[Book Lover]

13. It has to do with the elision of vowels

More than that, you gotta pay two cents.

[Eurobabe]

14. A place that serves gelato is a Gelateria!

Series!!

[Hand]

15. Insh'Allah. nt

[CTyankee]

16. OK, here's the deal. The word "pizza" in Italian is feminine, singular.

Plural would be "pizze". So a "Pizzeria" is a place where multiple pizza, or pizze, would be found.

Actually, a singular pizza would be La pizza. Plural would be le pizze.

[KitchenWitch]

18. THANK YOU!

:yourock:

[Dr. Strange]

19. What's that place called, the one that sells diaries?

[Kat45]

20. I want to know why it gets called a pie?

Pizza pie. It's not what I think of as a pie.

[CTyankee]

22. Uh, maybe it's shape?

n/t

[elleng]

21. Gelateria -

gelato!!!!

[Zuiderelle]

23. And why are people from the Phillipines called filipino?