Dats da way we spell it in jerzey. Ya stugots.
I have had to look up some Italian-American slang words from seeing people on here write them, or hearing some on TV shows that I had never heard. Such as the term "gabagoul" for the salume Capocollo/Coppa/cappicola.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5fmz5XdGq4 I found this page:
http://xeroth.wordpress.com/ which might be an interest to people here.