“Jamme, jamme jà, Funiculì, funiculà!” – so goes the popular Neapolitan song. But what do the lyrics mean? ‘Funiculì, Funiculà’ was composed by Luigi Denza in 1880, to lyrics in Neapolitan dialect by ...

I woke up this morning thinking of larvae. Not the actual creatures, but the word. I moved on from there to hippopatomi and stigmata. All of these, of course, are Latinate plurals adopted into English ...

In this bonus you will find a powerful rendition of ‘Funiculì, Funiculà’ performed by Rolando Villazón and Ildar Abdrazakov as an encore at their recent concert in… In this bonus you will find a ...

Cafe Funiculi Funicula employs a fantastical time-travel premise to teach its characters how to seize the moment and let go of their regrets. Inevitably less interested in science fiction than ...