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How is antipasti pronounced in the United States?
Category: Miscellaneous Asked by: confucion-ga List Price: $2.00 |
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28 Dec 2005 23:18 PST
Expires: 27 Jan 2006 23:18 PST Question ID: 610802 |
How is antipasti pronounced in the United States? |
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Re: How is antipasti pronounced in the United States?
Answered By: juggler-ga on 29 Dec 2005 00:35 PST Rated: |
Hello. ahn-tee-PAHS-tee see: "appetizers/antipasti/m/ahn-tee-pahs-tee" source: MyItalianRoots http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:b4shtTedXlIJ:myitalianroots.proboards27.com/index.cgi%3Fboard%3Dlearn%26action%3Ddisplay%26thread%3D1113878658+antipasti+%22pahs+tee&hl=en Also see pronunciation of antipasto: ://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=%22ahn-tee%22+antipasti&btnG=Search ------------ search strategy: "pahs tee" antipasti I hope this helps. |
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Re: How is antipasti pronounced in the United States?
From: atk-ga on 29 Dec 2005 06:28 PST |
However, it should be remembered that there are plenty of common Italian dialects--especially of so-called "American Italian" spoken in the U.S.--where speakers drop final vowels. (This may have developed from Sicilian immigrants, since it seems to me that this vowel-dropping is more common among Sicilian-heritage speakers I've met.) So there are plenty of American Italian speakers who would pronounce "antipasti" more like "ahn-tee-pahst" rather than "ahn-tee-pahs-tee." This sort of pronounciation may make purists cringe, but it's not uncommon. A nice NY Times piece from 2004 on the phenomenon is at http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=2152 |
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Re: How is antipasti pronounced in the United States?
From: confucion-ga on 29 Dec 2005 07:04 PST |
Thank you for that American Italian thread. That was exactly what I was looking for! I was trying to figure out whether anti-pahst was correct or not. It is incorrect usage but a word that has stuck with American Italians for generations so it's no wonder that most Americans say anti-pahst. |
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