Mexican cook learns English in pizza kitchens, ends up with a Goodfellas accent
aakashgupta · x · 2026-10-13
A Mexican cook who learned English working in Italian-American pizza kitchens came out sounding like Paulie from Goodfellas. Aakash Gupta explains that accents are statistical models of the specific voices around you: Southern Italian immigrants bent American English a century ago, and that accent keeps getting passed down through pizza restaurants — alongside examples like Chinese-Jamaican patois and Pakistani Glaswegian kids.
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