{"id":1596,"date":"2016-03-23T13:49:49","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T13:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/?p=1596"},"modified":"2019-01-07T17:01:35","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T22:01:35","slug":"new-jersey-italian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/2016\/03\/new-jersey-italian\/","title":{"rendered":"How Capicola Became Gabagool: The Italian New Jersey Accent, Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/how-capicola-became-gabagool-the-italian-new-jersey-accent-explained\">How Capicola Became Gabagool: The Italian New Jersey Accent, Explained<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you were to go to southern Italy, you wouldn\u2019t find people saying \u201cgabagool.\u201d But some of the old quirks of the old languages survived into the accents of Standard Italian used there. In Sicily or Calabria, you might indeed find someone ordering \u201cmutzadell.\u201d In their own weird way, Jersey (and New York and Rhode Island and Philadelphia) Italians are keeping the flame of their languages alive even better than Italian-Italians. There\u2019s something both a little silly and a little wonderful about someone who doesn\u2019t even speak the language putting on an antiquated accent for a dead sub-language to order some cheese.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Capicola Became Gabagool: The Italian New Jersey Accent, Explained: If you were to go to southern Italy, you wouldn\u2019t find people saying \u201cgabagool.\u201d But some of the old quirks of the old languages survived into the accents of Standard Italian used there. In Sicily or Calabria, you might indeed find someone ordering \u201cmutzadell.\u201d In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[207,206],"class_list":["post-1596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-links","tag-etymology","tag-new-jersey","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1G65p-pK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1596"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1601,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596\/revisions\/1601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}