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Originally posted by Lavinia from Italy:
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Originally posted by Lollie:
"wop" (don't have any clue where that came from!!)
it's the acronym of "WithOut Papers", if I'm not wrong. It's due to the fact that many Italian immigrants arrived to Ellis Island without their documents. In France they still use to refer to immigrants from developing countries as "sans papiers". [/QB]
And do you know where the name TONY derived from? When immigrants arrived at Ellis Island, many had stickers or signs on their lapels which said :

TO-NY ( TO New York ). wink j/j!


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