20 Words Your Italian Grandparents Used That Don't Exist in Italy

Your grandmother said gabagool at the deli counter and the man behind the glass knew exactly what she wanted. But if you said it in Rome, nobody would know what you were talking about. Not because she was speaking bad Italian. Because she was never speaking Italian at all. This video breaks down 20 words that every Italian American grew up hearing, traces each one back to the southern Italian dialect it actually came from, and explains the three phonetic rules that turn capocollo into gabagool, mozzarella into mutzadell, and ricotta into rigott. Every word on this list follows the same pattern, and once you hear it, you can't unhear it. If you grew up in an Italian American family, subscribe for more: https://www.youtube.com/@TheMulberryStreetMemo?sub_confirmation=1 Words covered: gabagool, goombah, mannaggia, madone, va fangool, stunad, agita, proshoot, mamaluke, mutzadell, pastafazool, brazhool, maliocch, rigott, oobatz, skeeve, sfogliadell, manigott, mopeen, and paesan. Where they come from, why they changed, and what your grandparents were really speaking.