On Sep 11, 1:35 pm, Amy Guskin  wrote:   
   > Nope.  No way!  I never heard it until I moved down here.  And I lived in   
   > Brooklyn, and Long Island, and Brooklyn again, and knew many, many *serious*   
   > Italian families (people who still spoke Italian in the home, and whose older   
   > generation ‹ the ones my parents age ‹ were either the first ones born   
   here,   
   > or they came over when they were tykes).  And spent a lot of time in Little   
   > Italy, shopping, eating, hanging around, etc.  Never, ever, ever heard the   
   > term "gravy" until moving to Philadelphia.  I think there are some parts of   
   > New York ‹ definitely not downstate ‹ that have an Italian population   
   from   
   > different regions of Italy than where the metropolitan area ones came from.   
       
   > If they say it, I wouldn't know it.  But people in the NYC metro area   
   > definitely do not say it.   
   They say in on Sopranos.  Suggests that New Jersery may use it.  I   
   doubt David Chase would have let something inauthentically NJ in...   
   but you never know.   
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