Confetti the end of the 19th century, using symbolic shreds of coloured paper rather than real sweets. Confetti Confetti are small pieces or streamers of paper, mylar, or metallic material which are usually thrown at celebrations, especially parades and weddings. The origins are from the Latin "confectum", with "confetti" the plural of Italian "confetto", small sweet. Modern paper confetti trace back to symbolic rituals of tossing grains and sweets during special occasions, traditional for numerous cultures throughout history as an ancient custom dating back to pagan times, but adapted from sweets and grains to paper through the centuries. Confetti are made
History of beer as the Saxons. It is disputed where the word originally comes from. Many other languages have borrowed the Dutch/German word, such as French "bière", Italian "birra", Romanian "bere" and Turkish "bira". The Nordic languages have "öl"/"øl", related to the English word "ale". Spanish, Portuguese and Catalan have words that evolved from Latin "cervisia", originally of Celtic origin. Slavic languages use "pivo" with small variations, based on a pre-Slavic word meaning "drink" and derived from the verb meaning "to drink". Chuvash "pora" its r-Turkic counterpart, which may ultimately be the source of the Germanic beer-word. History of beer Beer is one