hello Billy, as far as gotti on tape,, he says ah cosa nostra, with the watering down of italian speaking mafia members they have adopted what they hear on the news and read..wiseguys say i.e. regime.not decina..look the jersey guys used playing cards in stead of a saint.most don't even say amico nostri. they say friend of ours or 'he's made' also with i.e. colombo's..
I know what you mean, in the the tape when he said ''This is gonna be a Cosa Nostra 'till I die, be it an hour from now or hundred years from now when were in jail..'' but in the transcript above he definitely says 'La'.
Doesn't really matter, because what you said is true, a lot of things have lost their original meaning from when that thing was started in the late 1800's..
