Did you know that the word ‘spaghetti’ is plural?

Readers with Italian roots will probably be rolling around laughing on the floor, but honestly: we didn’t know either. The word ‘spaghetti’ is plural, referring to all those delicious strands of pasta together. So what do you call a single strand?

‘Spaghetto’. Yes, really. No joke. Some clever person recently posted this on Twitter and the internet exploded. So absolutely no one knew this. Well, except the Italians, of course, because they’ve known it all along.

Whole stack of sandwiches

It gets even stranger: ‘panini’? That’s plural too. The singular is ‘panino’. So if you order a panini with mozzarella, you’re actually asking for a stack of sandwiches. The same goes for salami, which is plural. Singular: salame.

Craving a plate of spaghetto

OK, spaghetti plural, spaghetto singular. But what about macaroni, fettuccini, tagliatelli or gnocchi? Who speaks Italian well enough to explain it? And are there more words we’re accidentally getting wrong? Questions, questions. And craving spaghetti, too.

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Source: Nieuwsblad.be