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Er, it's actually the New Jersey southern Italian pronounciation. It has nothing to do with "Arabs". When a people come to a new country and all live together in the same neighborhoods (ie Italians in the United States, specifically the northeast), new peculiarities of speech start to form and dialects can change. It is closer to the Sicilian dialect, but it isn't the same as what they speak in Sicily either.
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