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Italian-American Nicknames Are No Joke

(15 04 2010) Darrell Fusaro

Everyone’s familiar with nicknames. Mikey, Snookie, Noodles, The Situation. We’ve heard them all. But the ones given to you by your Italian-American friends? They always...

What’s his name?! What’s his name?!

(18 02 2009) Joseph Sciorra

Italian-American naming traditions of abandonment, reclamation, nicknaming, and forgetting.

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