"Sqwertz" > wrote in message
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> On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 15:53:00 GMT, JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
>
>> Who started this panini madness without checking a dictionary? Last
>> night,
>> on a menu at a café he
>>
>> Roast turkey panini
>> Cold-smoke salmon panini
>> etc etc...
>>
>> Multiple panini per order? Or, just one panino? My partner was feeling
>> silly
>> after a glass of wine, and took this opportunity to have some fun with
>> the
>> owner, who was taking orders. He didn't get it. It turned into "Who's on
>> first?"
>
> We Americans like those i's at the end of anything Italian.
> Well, except in the case of Spaghetti-O's.
>
> The panini insetad of panino thing is pretty much universal. If
> we changed it now, sales would go down drastically and cause all
> sorts of slowdowns for waitstaff.
>
> -sw

True. But, I think we should pluralize everything. "I'd like the steaks,
medium-rare please". How many steaks?