On Sep 1, 2:33 pm, Blinky the Shark > wrote:
>
> The prefix "ante" meanse before (antedeluvian, before the flood;
> antebellum, before the war). The prefix "anti* doesn't. I'm not
> talking about the food, just the language; the food name means whatever
> most people understand (or misunderstand) it to mean.
>
Oh, come on. That would apply if they were talking about an English
word. "Antipasto" is an Italian word. -aem