One spaghetti, two spaghetti

| Wed, 05/26/2010 - 03:54

Spaghetti are plural in Italian and Italians are always very amused when English-speaking folk treat the word as a singular noun. If you want to say “the spaghetti” , you have to say:

"gli spaghetti" -

“Gli” is a difficult sound for English speakers to pronounce but it is something like “l-yee”. It is easier to say it with a word such as “spaghetti” after it than to try to pronounce it on its own!

We’ll be dealing with some plurals in our next language article.