Spaghetti [spuh-get-ee]
Next
time you dive into a hot plate of spaghetti, take a moment to appreciate
each individual spaghetto. The word spaghetti is from the Italian spago meaning "thin rope,
twine." It's amazing to think that this beloved, stringy pasta has been a
plural all along. Early on in its time in English, spaghetti was spelled
"sparghetti," as in Eliza Acton's pivotal 1845 cookbook Modern Cookery, but by 1885 the plural pasta
assumed its currently accepted form.
