Thanks Lavinia. I always thought that was he case. My family on both sides is Sicilian. I had one uncle (through marriage) who was from Calabria. Everyone loved this guy, but he was not immune from being teased because he was only "Calabresi". My father and he would go around and around speaking Italian (fortunately in this case, with love and good humor) as to which was better Siciliano or Calabaresi. I didn't think, nor did I know at the time, of these feelings between these two areas, but they must have because they both joked about it all the time.

TIS