Stupendous

At times I wonder if anyone in Britain speaks any other language or has any linguistic intuition at all. (Generalizations rule.) At least it would explain why the movie Intacto had the explanatory tag Intact stamped onto it or why in a profile of Silvio Berlusconi the reporter feels obliged to write the man Italians call Il Cavaliere, ”the Cavalier”. Is that one single letter really so confusing?