Fifty-six is the fall. Italian tables print 'a caduta; Neapolitan ones print 'a caruta, and the difference is the rhotacism that also turns Madonna into Maronna at square 8.
It is an event rather than a thing, which puts it in the same small class as the beating at 38 and the weeping at 65.
- 56
- 'A caduta
- the fall
- Row 51–60 of the tabellone
Where the figure comes from
No source.
Other things filed on 56
In Neapolitan life
The spelling split at 56 is the whole editorial problem of the smorfia in one word. Neapolitan has never had a fixed orthography, so every printed list makes its own decisions, and the differences between lists are often nothing but two writers spelling the same sound.
56 in the smorfia — frequently asked
The same word. Italian lists keep the d, Neapolitan lists write the r that the dialect actually says.
The lists do not say, and the dialect covers both. A ruined man and a man who tripped are the same word here.