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Neapolitan to New York: How Italian Food Words Became American English
Episode 21
Published 3 days, 9 hours ago
Description
From the bustling streets of Naples to the diners of New York and Chicago, this episode traces how waves of southern Italian immigrants brought Neapolitan slang and culinary terms that slipped into everyday English. We examine the role of dialect, dictionaries, social media, and municipal policy in shaping these words’ pronunciation, spelling, and cultural resonance.
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