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  2. Sicilian Americans - Wikipedia

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    Sicilian immigrants brought with them their own unique culture, including theatre and music. Giovanni De Rosalia was a noted Sicilian American playwright in the early period and farce was popular in several Sicilian dominated theatres. In music Sicilian Americans would be linked, to some extent, to jazz. Three of the more popular cities for ...

  3. Siculish - Wikipedia

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    stritta - Sicilianisation of English word "street" - pronounced s-treeh-tah" (its pronunciation is the same of the word that in Sicilian language means "narrow") tupicu - sicilianisation of English word "toothpick" - pronounced too-pee-koo" Many children of Sicilian immigrants will often confuse actual Sicilian words for Siculish.

  4. Category:Sicilian-American culture - Wikipedia

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    Sicilian-American cuisine (11 P) Pages in category "Sicilian-American culture" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total.

  5. Sicilians - Wikipedia

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    The Sicilian people are indigenous to the island of Sicily, which was first populated beginning in the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods. According to the famous Italian historian Carlo Denina, the origin of the first inhabitants of Sicily is no less obscure than that of the first Italians; however, there is no doubt that a large part of these early individuals traveled to Sicily from Southern ...

  6. List of Sicilian Americans - Wikipedia

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    Martin Scorsese came from a working class Sicilian-American family, hailing from the Sicilian town of Polizzi Generosa; his father Luciano Charles Scorsese (1913–1993) was a pants presser in New York's garment district. He struggled to earn enough money to attend university, but has shown enormous gratitude to his parents for helping him ...

  7. Sicilian language - Wikipedia

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    Sicilian (Sicilian: sicilianu, Sicilian: [sɪ(t)ʃɪˈljaːnu]; Italian: siciliano) is a Romance language that is spoken on the island of Sicily and its satellite islands. [3] It belongs to the broader Extreme Southern Italian language group (in Italian italiano meridionale estremo ).

  8. Sicels - Wikipedia

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    Sicily in the 6th century BC; the Sicels are referred to as Sikeloi. Their neighbors to the west were the Sicani. The Sicels (/ ˈ s ɪ k əl z, ˈ s ɪ s əl z / SIK-əlz, SISS-əlz; Latin: Sicelī or Siculī) were an Indo-European tribe who inhabited eastern Sicily, their namesake, during the Iron Age. They spoke the Siculian language.

  9. List of shibboleths - Wikipedia

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    Familiarity with the standard pronunciation may in some cases distinguish Canadians from Americans. [43] Saskatchewan: Most Canadians will pronounce the name of this province with a schwa in all syllables except the second, where the stress is placed: sə-SKATCH-wən or sə-SKATCH-ə-wən (/ s ə ˈ s k æ tʃ ə w ə n / ⓘ).