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
Broken plural noun has both a broken plural Arabic form and a local plural. E.g. in Pashto the word for "purpose" () ' can be pluralised in either its Arabic form ' for more formal, High Pashto, or the plural ' in everyday speech. (Cf. the treatment of Latin words in English; e.g. the plural of "index" is either "indices" or "indexes", the latter being more informal.) In Persian this kind of plural is known by its Arabic term "jam'-e mokkassar" (, literally "broken plural"). However the Persian Academy of Literature (Farhangestan) does not recommend the usage of such Arabic plural forms,