Re: CHAT: F.L.O.E.S.

And Rosta scripsit:

> Alternatively, it could, as you suggest, be
> taken from AmE, but this seems unlikely, since pasta must
> have become a feature of quotidian Australian life a bit
> earlier than hearing AmE (on telly etc.) did.
Distinguish between pasta and the word "pasta".  When I was a
kid, I knew spaghetti and ravioli, but had no generic term;
thirty years later, "pasta" is in every kid's vocabulary.

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