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which is so common in NY (because most don't know what it means, except it is rude..) Italian still commonly spoken in many parts of the city, and in the 50's and 60's, many top ten hits on the radio where in italian. the most common way to say it fun goo la with the last a really a very soft schwa. the c is definately a g as is a babies babble "goo goo" .
my own italian is limited to things like salami, provolone, pasta, pesto, romano, ravioli, bueno, biscotti, panne, minestrone, zoupe englasia, mange.. but this is not a food thread, this is not a food thread, not a food thread
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You would expect Italian to be commonplace in a city whose mayor is named Giuliani and who was just made a Grand Plenipotent Poohbah Commander of the Exalted Meritorious* Order of the Cherubim, or something like that, by the President of Italy. *I accidentally typed that meretricious. Those Freudian slips   PS- Aenigma thinks meretricious should be merge. Seems to have its own Freudian (or maybe Kinsyesque) hangups.
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More on nosesI never knew Jimmy Durante was a moron. 
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no surprise that it is pronounced as fangul.. this sounds to me as a very southern dialect pronounciation.
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"Insults" could be a very long thread. Seeing how much this Board produced in the "as cold as" thread, I imagine we could come up with at least a dozen top-notch zingers in each of these categories:
as cheap as ... [Tighter than a gnat's ass. If he had flu he wouldn't give you a sneeze.]
as ugly as ... [a mud fence. You look like a professional blind date.]
as dumb as ... [You couldn't find your rear end if it was on fire] A huge category
as useless as ... [tits on a boar hog]
as immoral as ... [loose as a buck of soot]
as angry as ...
as nasty as ... [a two-stingered wasp] [meaner than turkey-turd beer]
as stubborn as ... [so stubborn they call him old iron-ass]
as poor as ...
as old as ... [He's older than dirt. He was a waiter at the Last Supper]
as messy as ... [look like you were chawin' tecabby and spit upwind. like you threw your clothes in the air and ran under them.]
as drunk as ...
as crooked as ... [a dog's hind leg. So crooked he could hide behind a corkscrew]
as dishonorable as ... [so low you have to look up to see hell. lower than a snake's belly.]
as brassy as ... [She has more nerve than a toothache.]
as talkative as ... [Your tongue wags at both ends. She speaks at 140 words per minute, with gusts up to 160]
not to mention the various insults to body-size and shape.
Source: The above insults are culled from a collection of regionalisms, Like we Say Back Home by Dick Syatt.
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It may or may not be of interest to know that in Indonesian sy is pronounced as we pronounce sh.
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Just back from screening a 1929 silent film (Douglas Fairbanks in "The iron mask") which included the following intertitle:
"You dolt! You bungler! You marplot! … "
I hadn't heard the word "marplot" before -- it means exactly what it says: "A person who spoils a plot or hinders the success of any undertaking." [18th century English -- SOED]
I assume it was the English translation of a similar French word (in Dumas's novel), but was it in use in 1929?
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There is also an old, rarely used word "marfeast", which is what it sounds like, now replaced by the much less elegant "party pooper" or sometimes by "spoilsport".
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