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To: bigsablepoint who wrote (79782)11/17/2000 1:54:43 PM
From: Neocon  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769667
 
You are welcome. Among immigrants, the term had the connotation of "fellow countryman", much like the Yiddish "landsman" (my paternal great- grandparents all came from shtetls in Latvia, like Tevye in the Russian Pale). In Italy itself, I think it is more like "buddy", although I could be mistaken.......