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Sotto vs Potto - What's the difference?

sotto | potto |

As a preposition sotto

is under; underneath.

As a proper noun potto is

a village in north yorkshire.

sotto

English

Adverb

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  • * 1978–81 , David Henderson, ?Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky: The Life of Jimi Hendrix (1983), page 104:
    • Jimi’s guitar plays flat against the major chord, giving a strange, almost discordant effect. Mitch on drums is behind the bass sotto .
  • * 2006 October 2nd, (Chuck Lorre) and (Bill Prady), (The Big Bang Theory) , “”, screenplay (revised first draft), act one, scene A (page 27):
    • :   (SOTTO , TO LEONARD)   Oh, he’s good.

    Adjective

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  • * 1978–81 , David Henderson, ?Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky: The Life of Jimi Hendrix (1983), page 237:
    • Playing against the effect, Wood plays single sotto lines with a variation on the key that sustains a minor mode against the finely tuned feedback effects stroked in pinks against the upper canvas.
  • * 2008 , David Henderson, ?Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky: Jimi Hendrix, Voodoo Child , page 192:
    • The twelve string rings out but Jimi’s voice is sotto , intimate.

    potto

    English

    (wikipedia potto)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small primate,
  • *1982 , (TC Boyle), Water Music , Penguin 2006, p. 147:
  • *:The forest hangs round them like a theater curtain, mist rising from the water, half-drowned things – jackals, monkeys, pottos , bushpigs – wading along with them, looking dazed and bearish.

    • Derived terms

    * (false potto), (vern, Martin's false potto) ()