mezzogiorno

She remembered a line from one of her Italian guidebooks: In the countryside, and particularly in the mezzogiorno, in the southern part of Italy, the peasants have no knowledge of their own language, and instead speak only localized dialect.

Uprising Margaret Peterson Haddix 2011

She remembered a line from one of her Italian guidebooks: In the countryside, and particularly in the mezzogiorno, in the southern part of Italy, the peasants have no knowledge of their own language, and instead speak only localized dialect.

Uprising Margaret Peterson Haddix 2011

She remembered a line from one of her Italian guidebooks: In the countryside, and particularly in the mezzogiorno, in the southern part of Italy, the peasants have no knowledge of their own language, and instead speak only localized dialect.

Uprising Margaret Peterson Haddix 2011

She remembered a line from one of her Italian guidebooks: In the countryside, and particularly in the mezzogiorno, in the southern part of Italy, the peasants have no knowledge of their own language, and instead speak only localized dialect.

Uprising Margaret Peterson Haddix 2011

It would also fulfill a campaign promise by Italy's ruling center-right coalition to empower the mezzogiorno, Italy's poorest region.

OVER TROUBLED WATERS 2008

And to answer one of your original questions, LH, similar pronunciations are found in New England and Philadelphia Italian communities, largely formed, like those in NY, by immigrants from the mezzogiorno.

languagehat.com: PROSHOOT. 2004

AGAMENNONE, G. -- "Notizie sui terremoti osservati in Italia durante l'anno 1897 (Terremoto dell 'India poco dopo il mezzogiorno del 12 giugno)."

A Study of Recent Earthquakes Charles Davison 1899

Il terzo diserto incomincia da'confini di Air dal lato di ponente, e s'estende fino al diserto d'Ighidi verso Levante; e di verso tramontana confina con li diserti di Tuat e di Tegorarin e di Mezab; da mezzogiorno, con li diserti vicini al regno di

Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846 James Richardson 1828

Questo diserto s'estende da tramontana verso mezzogiorno trecento miglia.

Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846 James Richardson 1828

-- Gademes è una grande abitazione, dove sono molti castelli e popolosi casali, discosti dal mare Mediterraneo, verso mezzogiorno, circa a trecento miglia.

Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846 James Richardson 1828