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
Language and the euro "Ouro" is also the Mirandese word for 'gold', as in Portuguese. In Polish, "euro" is both singular and plural, and pronounced . This noun belongs to a small group of nouns of foreign origin in Polish that, as an exception, remain non-declinable in any of the seven cases (other examples being "zoo", "Waterloo" and few others). It is however likely for the word "euro" to follow the pattern of other foreign words like "kino", "studio" and "radio" and eventually become fully declinable in a similar manner as a result of a full linguistic absorption of the word into Polish. "Cent"