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spaghetti

[ spuh-get-ee ]

noun

  1. a white, starchy pasta of Italian origin that is made in the form of long strings, boiled, and served with any of a variety of meat, tomato, or other sauces.
  2. Electricity. an insulating tubing of small diameter into which bare wire can be slipped.


spaghetti

/ əˈɡɛɪ /

noun

  1. pasta in the form of long strings
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of spaghetti1

1885–90; < Italian, plural of spaghetto, diminutive of spago thin rope < Late Latin spacus twine, probably < Greek áDz long-threaded lichen
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of spaghetti1

C19: from Italian: little cords, from spago a cord
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I remember the first time I made spaghetti sauce from scratch, long before I understood ratios or had any true sense of technique.

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Some 68 years ago today, millions of people tuned into a BBC Panorama report about a Swiss family harvesting spaghetti from trees.

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It was usually served with fried plantain, the spicy black pepper sauce "shito", boiled eggs, and sometimes even spaghetti or fried fish.

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At about 22:00 BST, the teenager joined her parents in their small kitchen where her mother was putting the finishing touches to the adults' tea, spaghetti bolognese and garlic bread.

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They had picnic tables, and they would do a really small menu of some of their pizzas and their spaghetti, and they would have wine and beer.

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How Do You Spell Spaghetti?

Spelling tips for spaghetti

The word spaghetti is hard to spell because, based on how it is pronounced, you wouldn’t expect that h to be there. The double t can also be easy to miss. 

How to spell spaghetti: To remember how to properly spell spaghetti, you can think of the phrase “There is a ghost in Betty’s spaghetti.” This reminds you that there is a g followed by an h in the middle of the word, like in the spelling of ghost. It also reminds you of the ending -ett, similar to the double t you find in the word Betty.

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