Saturday Telegraph GK

[Minoru]

36 down Italian knighthood

CAVALLERI or CAVALIERI ?

Any ideas?

[Dinkypuzzled]

Google says cavaliere.

[Celtigra3]

As 49a is Bernstein, it would have to be Cavalieri

[Minoru]

I have seen CAVALIERE on Yahoo as the Italian Knighthood. Has M Mepham made a mistake and assumed Bernstien as the spelling of Leonard Bernstein? the confusion continues!

[london_lassy]

I am sure it is cavalieri

[Celtigra3]

I checked the spelling of Bernstein and it's right so it hs to be cavalieri

[JaneOliver]

My Italian dictionary gives cavaliere for knight.

[Elspeth]

Wikipedia says that cavalieri is an italian honour equivalent to a British knighthood.

[Pangolin]

What is the point of hypothesising about possible compiler mistakes? You have to go with what fits ie Cavalieri

[Minoru]

Thanks for all the comments. If such an authority as Wikipedia gives Cavalieri then I'll go with that and look forward to next week's answers!

[Top Cat2]

Think it has something to do with singular nouns/adjectives ending in E and plurals in I.

Only an idea though!

[mike b]

Just wish this setter would learn some basic Italian - has caused problems before not knowing difference between eg cognoscente/i...

[harry s]

mike b is absolutely right. Mepham makes other kinds of mistakes, too, which are usually due to sloppy thinking. I usually ring up the DT to see whether ther's a mistake .I'm positive the answer is cavalieri, which is a plural. I have to say, though that I don't approve of this site. It seems ther are a lot of people who know how to use a computer but haven't a clue how to use sources! If they can't hack it, they shouldn't be just told the answers. There's money at stake.