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"Michel Boucher" > wrote in message
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> "Ophelia" > wrote in
> . uk:
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>>>> Now I understand

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> This isn't my quote :-p
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>> 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? )

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> 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.


Quite so