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Impressive! But I'm contractually obligated to point out that "spaghetti" is plural and "spaghettis" is not a thing.

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Actually it’s not spaghetti unless it comes from the spaghetti region of France.

Probably on the border shared with Italy.

Switzerland actually - https://youtu.be/8scpGwbvxvI

According to who? Many companies outside of this region sell products called "spaghetti" and I didn't find any info suggesting the name had been reserved somehow.

Giusto! And "spaghetto" is not really a thing either but I love saying it when I mean a singular "noodle"

"Spaghetto" is completely a real thing, in Italian at least!

"Uno spaghetto" (one), "due spaghetti" (two) and so on...

Certo, ma intendevo che la gente di solito non usa quella parola lol

or at least not to my knowledge! I'm not Italian

If there were a girl spaghetta, what would the plural be?

spaghette, like "le nostre pizze" is the plural of "la nostra pizza" (our pizza):

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Campana+d'Oro/@46.064371,1...

Similar to lasagna vs lasagne except the former incorrect version is used in most English speaking countries.

Yes it is a real thing.

I believe the plural is spaghettipodes

My money is on spaghettii

That's two, and three are spaghetiii. Careful with counting one more, that'll be spaghettiv, of course.

Five is right out.

Spaghettx is also the gender non-binary usage. Which makes this counting system slightly problematic.

This is dangerously close to the octopi/octopodes/octopuses debate.

For the curious: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/spaghetti

I had a chuckle when I read the plural “spaghetties”.

It sounds funnier, though

Silly hobbitses and their spaghettises, we hates them

In ADOM you could wish for "seven league bootses" if you wanted to get multiple pairs.

spaghetti noodle might do as a singular?

or strand?

Submit a PR then?

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