Content tagged with “mafia” under “Stuff I Looked Up”
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Camorra
“This is one of the organized crime groups in Italy. In the United States, we speak of ‘the mafia’ to refer to organized crime, but this is very general term for a branch of organized crime in this country. The ‘American Mafia’ has its roots in a crime organization in historical Sicily. In…”
Comare
“This is the colloquial name for a mobster’s mistress. It’s slang, pronounced ‘goo-mah’ when using a heavy Italian-American accent. It’s a weird word, because that’s an American pronunciation of an Italian word, and it has a different meaning in America. And the English spelling is sometimes…”
