And yet the orthography of “pergola” has also remained identical in almost every dialect! Here is pergola translated into all these languages from Google Translate with a few interesting divergences, posted below.
The word ” business ” for example, once rhymed with ” dizziness, ” having three syllables instead of two. Unlike new inventions such as electricity , light bulbs , telephones , the telegraph , rifles , locomotives , combustion or steam engines , the pergola has been around for centuries with plenty of time to morph to a vastly different sound or spelling in just one language.