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[-] Pipoca@lemmy.world 37 points 10 months ago

This is also why the stereotypical NJ Italian-American pronunciation of things sounds so unlike Italian.

It's not that Americans somehow turned "pasta e fagioli" into "pasta fazool". They turned "pasta e fasule" into "pasta fazool", which is a much smaller leap.

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