"Puester" wrote in message
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Milhouse Van Houten wrote:

This is driving me mad, and I think this may be the only thing I
*haven't*
been able to find on all the Internet, mostly because I have absolutely
no
idea how to spell it, but it's a type of pasta (or perhaps the name for
the
dish you make with the pasta) that phonetically sounds like
"gahv-ah-deal."
I recall each being about the size of a typical gnocchi.

Whether it starts with a "c" or "g" or even something else, I don't
know,
this the problem.

Thanks



Try looking under "cavatelli". IME many Italian foods
aren't pronounced anywhere near the way they're spelled.
(For example, many oldtimers in New Haven, CT. pronounce
pizza "uh-BEETZ" and the store signs spell it apizz' .)

gloria p

That makes me think of pig-Latin, with the end vowel moved to the front. It
also reminds me of the tendancy for immigrants from Japan to switch the
pronunciacion of R's and L's. It's hard for me to understand, but I was
raised under totally different linguistic circumstances.

-Adam