Is Yuckamanelli even an Italian name?
This bothers me. I grew up in a town where everybody was Irish, Italian, or both, and I have NEVER heard of an Italian name starting with a "Y".
It bugged me in The Boondock Saints, too, where the evil guy's name was Yakavetta. Sounds Japanese to me. Whats the deal here, anybody know?
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Technically, it can't be unless the spelling was changed or it was listed wrongly in the credits. The Italian alphabet contains no j's, k's, w's, or y's. Y's would be "ia" and "k" would be "che" It would be spelled either Iachemanelli or Iacamanelli.
shareJust because she's of Italian descent, doesn't mean that her name has to be spelled according to current Italian orthographic rules. Remember that millions of Italians came to American through Ellis Island, and other ports of entry, and for many of them, their names were recorded phonetically by the port staff. I have a friend whose great-grandfather's name was Napa, but the clerk wrote it down as "Knapp". If you didn't know any better, and saw only his name, you'd think he was German.
Now, the spelling is beside the point. I do agree, I think "Yuckamanelli" is a joke of some kind.
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