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You may be speaking Soprano — and not even know it.“The Sopranos” — the drama about families of mobsters in suburban Jersey — premiered on HBO And with it, came new entries into the American lexicon.Like “whadayagunnado?” (What are you going to do?) 495
Oddly, it is not derived from the Italian word "soprano" which is the highest singing voice of a woman or young boy. HBO gave fans of the hit television series The Sopranos a special treat on Wednesday by posting a … The real saying is "Statte zitto", which means "[You] stay quiet/shut up".
However, what qualifies this mistake for my list is the fact that the author pretty much missed the point of this Italian command entirely.
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)Before the show, these — and a few of our other favorite Italian-American food slang words, which we remind you of below — were familiar to folks in the New York suburbs, but not much anywhere else.The rest of the country — and the world — may have heard them in mobster movies, but they weren't broadcast into their homes every Sunday night for six seasons.After its launch, I had friends as far away as Texas and California speaking like Tony.Here are a few things they were saying, and what they really mean:These others are Italian-American dialects of Italian foods. stream
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