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Message: [QUOTE="David 76, post: 3113991, member: 4232"] my understanding is the "Italian" spoken around New Haven is all pigeon Italian based on the dialect spoken in Naples a hundred years ago twisted by time and Americanized. In real Italian, for instance, the vowels are pronounced at the end of the word unlike ahbeets, ricott, gabbagool, svoyadell, manicott, lasagn, etc. Italy has only been a country a very short while when the wave of immigrants came. People from the different city- states sometimes couldn't understand each other. [/QUOTE]