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Italy is a social construct (i.redd.it)

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 7 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.