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by ggambetta 906 days ago
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.
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.
Switzerland actually - https://youtu.be/8scpGwbvxvI
Probably on the border shared with Italy.
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...

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

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

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