Confetti 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 in a variety of colors, and commercially available confetti come in many different shapes. A distinction
Latin word order In terms of transformational grammar, the sentence can be analysed as being derived from *"si tuus parens haec tibi diceret" by raising "haec" and "tibi" to earlier in the sentence. A functionalist, on the other hand, would say that "haec" naturally comes first as the topic, then "si" in its normal place, then the unemphatic pronoun, without anything being moved. Latin word order The word order of classical Latin is relatively free. Subject, Object, and Verb can come in any order; adjectives and possessives can go before or after their noun, and so on. A commonly found feature of Latin