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Originally Posted by Seven
Many Foreign names were butchered when people immigrated over here as well. My Mothers family comes from Calabria, their last name, whatever it was, got changed to the town they were from in Italy, which was Longobardi.
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Same thing happened to Vito Andolini, of Corleone.
To add another butchered French-Canadian name, my maternal grandfather's last name, Martineau, is pronounced "Mart-no". Everyone outside the family who I've heard pronounces it "Mart-in-oh".