07.27.06
Italian Onomatopoeia
It’s been hot and muggy here in Italy (and from what I hear, in the US as well). I read in the paper the other day that Italians were doing what they could in the “afa.” It was a new word for me, so I had to look it up.
afa [à-fa]: humid, oppressive heat; suffocating air.
It’s such a good word to describe the heat. It sounds like it’s all you can do just to say the word without sweating.