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
Plural form of words ending in -us has an "i" as its last letter. "Vīriī" would be the plural form of the putative, nonexistent word "vīrius". Some English words of Latin origin do not commonly take the Latin plural, but rather the regular English plurals in -(e)s: "campus", "bonus", and "anus"; while others regularly use the Latin forms: "radius" ("radii") and "alumnus" ("alumni"). Still others may use either: "corpus" ("corpora" or "corpuses"), "formula" ("formulae" in technical contexts, "formulas" otherwise), "index" ("indices" mostly in technical contexts, "indexes" otherwise). The form "viruses" appears in the official Scrabble words list, but neither "viri" nor "virii" does. Similarly, the spellchecker built