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Originally Posted by Worldwalker
Thanks for the link to the "Octopedantry" article. The comments are even better than the article itself! With regard to the guy commenting on ravioli, I've always used "raviolus" (accent on the second syllable, as in "alveolus") as the singular, as in "hey, there's no cheese in this raviolus!"
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I think that's Italian, in which case the singular ends in "-o", so the singular of "ravioli" would be "raviolo", just as the singular of "spaghetti" is "spaghetto". ("I'm not feeling very hungry - I'll just have a spaghetto"
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