Small-town celebrity birthplace of the week: Webster City, Iowa (current population about 8,000). Historical novelist MacKinlay Kantor was born there in 1904.
Which of these English words, all derived from the plural of Italian words, does not have a “singular Italian” version in American English dictionaries; that is, the same word ending in an “o” instead of an “i”?
A) Broccoli
B) Graffiti
C) Paparazzi
D) Biscotti
Wednesday’s answer: According to German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.”
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