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Michel Boucher Michel Boucher is offline
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"Ophelia" > wrote in
. uk:

>>> Now I understand


This isn't my quote :-p

> Thank you for your sites but I do not understand French From my
> understanding of Italian I suppose that Un Spaghetto is ONE and
> Spaghetti is MANY? )


Well, yes, that's what I was saying. But one always speaks of pasta in
the many and not the singular, so that the plural has become the only
form of the word in use.

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