Tuesday, January 29, 2013

MAMBO SICILIANO

This is one of my favorite dialect pronunciations: 'zheh-DROOL', meaning cucumber. It can also be heard in the song "Mambo Italiano" by Rosemary Clooney. Does it have a double meaning? The world may never know.

Proper word is cetriole, pronounced 'cheh-tree-ALLAH'.

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