Friday, September 07, 2007

Coventry


Old Cathedral at Coventry
Originally uploaded by DanieVDM.

The italian word COVENTRIZZARE (to coventrate) comes from the historical Coventry bombing of the 14 November 1940. The level of distruction of this area was so massive that they thought to use the name of the city to create a new verb with the meaning of OBLITERATED/FLATTENED