I have seen in Awad the Italian word "omerta" written in this way. I wanted just to add a comment about the fact that the American keyboard force us to avoid the accents - not just Italian people, I received e-mails in French , also missing the correct accents.
But omerta needs strongly an accent on the last "a", so that we supply with an apostrophe: omerta'.
Otherwise we would pronounce it as omErta - with the tonic accent on the e.
How do you pronounce it?
Ciao
Emanuela