This will be of special interest to Max and tsuwm. A friend E-mailed me the link, and I love the entry I've posted here. There's a cook-out specialty in a certain region of upstate NY; it's called spiedie and I'd always wondered where the name came from:

http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/dictionary/spiedie/

Wow, this is way cool! But--is your cookout pronounced speedo, spy-doh, or something else?
I read about fairy rings; didn't someone bring that up here, once? The 1872 listing bears out what my memory is telling me was said here.
New word to me, but makes sense: Bangalored. Sigh.

Really cool site. Looking up liverpaste nel diccionario.

Most folks pronounce it spee-deez. Spelling is pretty erratic, though. Speidie and speedie are popular variants.

I thought a spiedie was one of those scant bathing suits which men of ample girth ought never wear in public.

nope, Fr Steve, those are speedo's!

Fr Steve, those are speedo's!

Call 'em what you like. You're never gonna catch me dressed in a pair of the things. God invented baggy trunks for people with my physique and I thank Him for it.

PS: Why do we call one pair of trunks "a pair" when there is only one of it?

You're never gonna catch me dressed in a pair of the things.

Yeahbut®, would you eat some?

Looking up liverpaste nel diccionario.

So what's Italian for chopped liver? And did I chop yours, Nuncle?

<i>So what's Italian for chopped liver? And did I chop yours, Nuncle?</i>

A good question. I thought you had, but I've decided you didn't. (I'd posted the URL for DTWW elsewhere on another wordish site.) Just a liver attack on my part. Urp.