Today at the doctor's office

[conuly]

my mother realized she wasn't sure if a fan of Gilbert and Sullivan is called a "Savoyard" or not. (That is the correct term.) I had to call Jenn and ask her, because it was driving the two of us batty. They're named after the Savoy, where G&S operas were performed.

Which I guess means that fans of Shakespeare are called Globetrotters. I am very much in favor of this.

Savoyard is also the name of a dialect of Arpitan, spoken by a few thousand people at the border of Italy and France.

Comments

[st_aurafina]

Savoiardi are ladyfinger biscuits. Same region, I guess, the Duchy of Savoy.

Now I want tiramisu.

[alatefeline]

I like this terminology and will be applying it more widely.

[conuly]

Never liked tiramisu myself. Now, a nice tres leches....

[conuly]

It's perfect, isn't it?

[mme-n-b.livejournal.com]

Do you suppose the original G/S fans had in mind the little boys with trained marmots when they adopted the name?