In a blog post titled: Cocomero, Anguria, Melone D'Acqua, Kyle Phillips, the About.com Guide to Italian Food, offers up refreshing watermelon recipes and notes that the fruit is rich in potassium, one of the elements the body looses through sweating, as well as vitamins A and C.

Anguria (watermelon) is frequently referred to as a melone d'acqua in Naples and the surrounding region, while Romans usually use the term cocomero for the large green oval fruit with a juicy sweet red interior.

First there were bread and tulips, now there are days and clouds. The couplets refer to film titles by director Silvio Soldini. His film "Pane e Tulipani," released in 1999, was a critical and commercial success. Now there's "Giorni e Nuvole," currently in limited engagement in the U.S.

According to The New York Times, in an article titled "Hard Look at Tough Times for an Italian Marriage," the Italian film: "...suggests that Italy's middle class is as much under siege as that of the United States. In both countries, it appears, job security isn’t what it used to be, and corporate downsizing is plunging affluent families into sudden financial tailspins."

No more Anita Ekberg frolicking in the Fontana di Trevi, it seems.

A community member of the About.com Italian Language Forums makes an interesting point when contrasting the use of Latin terms by native English speakers versus the use of English terms by native Italian speakers:

"È stato buffo per me scoprire che usare parole latine o latineggianti in inglese aggiunge importanza o pomposità alle frasi; in Italia se uno si vuole fare credere importante inserisce qualche parola inglese o inglesizzata, in genere a sproposito e spesso scritta male, e non si rende conto che quello che mette in evidenza è solo la sua ignoranza."

What about native Latin speakers who use English terms?