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"Italian Sounding" is a +US$60b industry. It is the marketing phenomenon consisting of words and images, color combinations (the Italian tricolor) and geographical references for brands that are evocative of Italy to promote and market products – especially but not exclusively agri-food – that are not actually Made in Italy.

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What are the five dishes that your family most commonly has for dinner?

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Talking about the interesting stitch message, I recall from biology class many years ago that in the long run the pathogen generally is better off not killing us (not all of us anyway), since we supply nutrients etc.

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I've been on this planet many decades. I've taught English, been a journalist, an editor and a proofreader. Yet only today did I discover that there is only one "r" in Sherbet. All these years I've thought it ended bert not bet. Brains are strange things.

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Substack

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Cross Stitching / Cross Snitching

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DBD Not Official Financial Advice

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DBD Test Kitchen

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DBD AV Club

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Our Crumbling Democracy

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Today in Omicron

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Pro

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Other College

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Cal

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