Tom Sandin offered, in an aside:
If you eat equal amounts of pasta and antipasta, will you still be hungry?
At 13.28 28/04/00 -0700, James G. Pengra critiqued:
Cute, I'll have to remember that one. Actually, I think it's antepasta, but
only a churl (or a pedagog) would insist on it.
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At 10:17 4/29/00 +0200, Mark riposted:
The "appetiser" course comes before the meal and so is called "antipasto".
"Antipasta" is a common though understandable error. "Ante" is the Latin
form of the prefix. It has evolved to "anti" in Italian.
Mark
Mark Sylvester
United World College of the Adriatic,
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