Talk:Hundred Horse Chestnut

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A fact from Hundred Horse Chestnut appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 25 December 2006. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the Chestnut Tree of One Hundred Horses, located on the eastern slope of Mount Etna, holds the world record for the "greatest tree girth ever", and is also the largest and oldest known chestnut tree?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2006/December.

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++Lar: t/c 09:02, 25 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Translation

I did a translation of the Sicilian poem. If people think it now looks a little unbalanced, I can have a go at the Italian one as well (but I figure far more will be able to read the Italian than can read the Sicilian). πιππίνυ δ - (dica) 13:36, 7 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

That would be great, someone should definitely translate the Italian poem, since most English wikipedia users don't speak Italian. I tried to google translate it, but it didn't sound quite right. Marcipangris (talk) 12:01, 19 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I have provided a translation of the second poem in free verses, trying to stay as close as possible to the vocabulary, feeling and rhytm of the original. Suggestions for improvement gratefully received. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.228.136.32 (talk) 11:59, 29 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Giuvanna or Giuanna

Isn't the Sicilian name for Giovanna Giuanna instead of Giuvanna? My name in Italian is Giovanna and many Sicilains jokingly call me Giuanna.--Jeanne Boleyn (talk) 17:47, 7 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Translated name is of course hundred-horse chestnut

Alas, a modern translation seems doubly due:

Without a hyphen is accepted by the majority of linguists to be a clear grammatical error in respect of a double-noun adjective such as this
Even more so where misleading (horse chestnut being another species entirely)
If not I fear you will not get a mention under sweet chestnut or anywhere, nor visitors nor scholars as interested.

Move the whole article, possibly though obviously a throwback/simplified form of orthography is fine to link to.- Adam37 Talk 21:59, 30 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]