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Chris -- 2018-04-11
These phrases translate into ‘our cause,’ ‘our house,’ and ‘our thing.’ All seem like suitably vague and allusive names for a semi-secret criminal conspiracy. I’m unsure whether these phrases are eggcorns within the Italian language, cross-language eggcorns, or deliberate usages. Perhaps a native Italian speaker (or a learned criminal) out there can clear this up. Examples:
The greatest American gang EVER is La Causa Nostra: the Italian Mafia although the Russian Mafia is trying hard to catch up these days.
www.stormfront.org/forum/showthread.php … -diversity
The Mafia (La Causa Nostra) represents one of the most ruthless …
mcadams.posc.mu.edu/russ/jfkinfo/jfk9/hscv9a.htm
... system operated in Naples, Sicily and other parts of southern Italy (exported to the USA in the C20th) in the form of the Causa Nostra or Mafia.
www.christopherlong.co.uk/per/chioshouses.html
Originally called “The Criminal Commission et al.,” it. was renamed “La Causa Nostra.”
www.aarclibrary.org/publib/jfk/hsca/rep … alerno.pdf
In Sicily, the original Mafia, also known as Casa Nostra, has yet to go back to the murderous ways it renounced in the early 1990s …
news.independent.co.uk/europe/article1961433.ece
Having committed the ultimate act of betrayal against La Casa Nostra [the Mafia], Rotondo now depends on a witness security program for his life.
www.catherineshu.com/clipsgottitrial.html
Many gangs that operate like cults institute such vows, and we can also find evidence in the history of the Mafia or Casa Nostra.
home.dejazzd.com/jszimhart/cult101.htm
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