Sinatra has a cold (2) -- Irena -- 20150925 We continued our discussion on Sinatra and Sicilian's way . Corrections: Fidelity: It is used more for describing couples. "Loyal" is a better word to describe Sinatra's friends. grateful: a better word than saying "he treated people well in return". He could explode in anger: Not "he could exploded" nor "he could be exploded". to tower: "tower" here is a verb (surprising?). A towering rage, or "to tower above everyone else". staff: It does not refer to a single person or an occupation. The normal way of using it is "75 members of his staff". innocent vs. unaware: He seemed to be quite unaware of what happened. unpredictable side vs. unpredictability: they are interchangeable. tense vs. intense: That was an intense scene. "tense" --> present tense. Vocabularies: mud flood. alabaster. Phrases: The lesser of the two evils. (From "Master and Commander". It turned out I did watch the movie). fit the bill. The remaining one: better than saying "the one of the two that has not been smashed into pieces". No Anglo-Saxon outs: This is sentence that needs culture background to understand. Somehow the Sicilian believed that Anglo-Saxon were not as tough as Italians(?) Pronunciation: browser: The "ow" sound has to be clear (I should make it a bit more exaggerated.) drowning: Notice that there is a "n", so it is not "drowing", not "drow + ning". executive: The emphasis is on "xe". So "ex" as in "exam", "xecutive" as "zacutive". great deed: "ee" in deed has a prolonged pronunciation, which makes it different from "did". staff: "a" as in "tap", not as in "art". hierarchy: the emphasis is on the first syllable. innocent: Note that there is no "r" sound when pronouncing "no". Saying "innorcent" can throw off people and they could not understand what I'm saying. hospitable vs. hospitality. Italian: Il Padrone: il + pa + drona. uomini rispettati: "uo" sounds like "wo". "tta" sounds like "da" and "ti" sounds like "di", except there is an emphasis on "ttati".