On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 17:28:10 -0400, Siobhan Perricone
wrote:

On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 16:07:45 GMT, Puester wrote:

Try looking under "cavatelli". IME many Italian foods
aren't pronounced anywhere near the way they're spelled.

Though that's mostly dialects, like how differently people from the north
and south pronounce some things in English. Technically Italian is mostly
pronounced how it's spelled with a few letter sounds being different
between Italian and English, but the Sicilians, to my understanding, speak
it very differently, which is why the pronounciations are so very
different.

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Siobhan Perricone
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Oh ya, those dialects are *very* different. I dated a Calabrese with a
Sicilian BIL (my family is from Naples) and it was like learning a new
language. It took me two years of Sunday dinners to finally figure it
out, course, then we broke up and 'm back to barely understanding it
again. :-)
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