Originally Posted By: Don Cardi
 Originally Posted By: SC
 Originally Posted By: J Geoff
There you go -- a "New York Italian" thing... not an Italian thing. Same as the NY/NJ mispronunciation of most Italian pasta names/dishes

mani-got ...Huh?


How do you pronounce it??


It's not pronounced like Mrs. Manicotti in the Honeymooners!

It's pronounced : mOn - e - gOth


In Italy, except for the O, the other vowels are sounded out differently than in America.

The O is still sounded out as a long O just like in the english language.

The E is sounded out as a a short E ( like in the word wEt)

So in Italy you would say, (just like here in east Geoff ;\) )

mO-Ne-gOth


Not to be too picky, but that pronounciation is a SOuthern Italian dialect, probably Sicilian. In Florence, where they claim they speak the only "real" Italian, you would call it
Mahn eeeee cott eeee.


"Io sono stanco, sono imbigliato, and I wan't everyone here to know, there ain't gonna be no trouble from me..Don Corleone..Cicc' a port!"

"I stood in the courtroom like a fool."

"I am Constanza: Lord of the idiots."