Friday, April 13, 2007

Stugots



People have asked me what does it mean. It comes from Italian, "Questo Cazzo". But since Tony Soprano speaks in a Avellino-Naples accent, then one must account for Napoletano inflection on italian language in changing the ending vowel "o" to a "u", and abbreviating "Questo" in "Sto", and the latter becoming "Stu". Then "Cazzo" becomes "Cazzu", and you have "StuCazzu". With the silent dropping of an ending vowel that Napoletano dialect often applies, it becomes "StuCazz", and listening it and writing it as an english-language native, there you go: you got "StuGots".

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