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  Siculish
Siculish is the "Sicilianization" of American words and phrases by immigrants from Sicily to the United States in the early 20th Century, usually for humorous effect, or out of necessity.
Many times, Siculish was used to Sicilianize the names of American places among immigrant communities, such as Bensonhurst, New York becoming nicknamed "Bensinosti".
Forms of Siculish are also to be found in other sicilian immigrant communities of anglo-speaking countries, namely Canada and Australia.
www.cooldictionary.com /words/Siculish.wikipedia   (476 words)

  
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A surprising similiarity can often be found between these forms, through either coincidence, trans-national movements of Sicilian immigrants, or more likely, through the logical adaption of English language English using linguistic norms from the Sicilian language.
This will especially occur where both the Sicilian and English languges have basically the same word derived from Norman language Norman.
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www.mauspfeil.net /Siculish.html   (351 words)

  
 Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Siculish   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
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 Reviews
Unfortunately, in their introduction, Chairetakis and Sciorra fall short of substantiating the value(s) of Ancona’s poetry within this tradition.
Cipolla resolves poetically most of the problems posed by the curious phenomenon of linguistic bastardization that is part and parcel of immigrant alienation (“If I do not learn English soon, I’ll be ruined”—p.
Rhyming English and Siculish in the last two lines, Cipolla injects the proper dose of humor into the poet’s attempt to extricate himself graciously and thus achieves a
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