Pasta-antipasta

[THOMAS SANDIN <sandint@NCAT.EDU>]

Thanks, Mark. I find that my errors are entirely too common. So can I ask,
"If you eat equal amounts of pasto and antipasto, will you still be
hungry?"?
> Churlish pedagog supplies free Italian lesson:
> pasta: (also) means spaghetti-family food made from flour dough (as in
> English word "paste")
> pasto: another word for a meal (as in English word "repast")
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> 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.
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> Mark
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