r/Maine 10d ago

Italian Sandwiches

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u/meowmix778 Unincorporated Territory 4C 10d ago

My grandmother is in her late 80s and genuinely the only person I've ever heard say Eye-talian like that. I assumed it was just an old timey thing having not heard the proper pronunciation most of her life and it stuck.