[TI] A very interesting article on the Sicilian language

[jrbkcastro at att.net]

  Ken,

what a great article!...you have to go way towards the end to find the excerpt about a game of briscula....I remember my father and uncles playing "brisca" which they also taught us to play as small boys....accompanied with much noise, and some sanitized remarks for us to shout as we played....does anyone else know /remember this game?

Joe Castro
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From: Ken Geraci <ken_geraci at yahoo.com>
>
I was browsing around on "Wikipedia", the free internet encyclopedia and I came 
across a really impressive article on the Sicilian language. Of course, each 
Wikipedia article is written by whomever wishes to do so and some are uneven in 
their quality. However, this particular article really seemed to be among the 
> best I have ever seen on Wikipedia.
> 
The article gives information about all of the nations and peoples that have 
inhabited Sicily and lists the various words that they each have contributed to 
the Sicilian language. This article is first about the language but also gives 
an anstounding amount of historical information on Sicily. The article even 
mentions that historians believe that there were never more than 5,000 Normans 
> actually settled in Sicily during the years of Norman rule which surprised me.
> 
> Here is a link to the actual article: 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicilian_language
> 
The article is very detailed (almost to a fault), I hope everyone finds it as 
> interesting as I did, 
> 
> Ken Geraci
> 
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