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This is a chapter from my eight book called Learn to live

Today I learnt from twitter then Word Hippo that in specific contexts the plural of pizza is pizze. Ordinarily the plural is pizzas but not always. But is this true in English? I learnt that in Italian the plural of pizza is pizze. Word Hippo says that the plural form can be pizze [in English] (rare), for example in reference to various types of pizze or a collection of pizze. It is a loan word. But they did not give any sentence use examples. My friend Gemini was able to give me an example, "At the restaurant, we offer a variety of pizze, including Margherita, pepperoni, and veggie." I guess we could be saying the pizze menu or I might ask the pizzaiolo what types of pizze do you serve? My mind has me thinking. What other words have double z in them? There are quite a few of them. Would be cool if these were known as buzzwords. I tried to be funny but ended up being fuzzy. My favorite z word is zen for calm, quiet and peace. And I found the most curious word that contains zen three times and the most z's. It is the obsolete word zenzizenzizenzic. Back in the day, they used it to show a number multiplied by itself eight times.

I also read that the plural of cheese can be either cheese or cheeses, depending on whether it's used as an uncountable or countable noun. So what is an uncountable and countable noun? Apple is a countable noun because you can count it. Whereas air and water is uncountable. This has me thinking, what interesting culinary plurals are there. Weird ones. Ones that we might not have heard of before. For example octopi is the plural of octopus. I guess if you made Octopus pizza you could call it octopie. Maybe octopie could be an eight piece pizza. There is that number eight again. Eight like ate. Like I ate the pizza. Speaking of pieces. Pezzi which is an anagram of pizze and is the Italian word for pieces. Paz is the Spanish word for peace and pazza is the Italian word for insane. So a crazy idea could be to create world peace with pizza. Easy peasy right? Or should I say cheesy peasy? Or should I say easy peacey. Make pizza, not war. Welcome to my pizza parlour called Gazza Pizza. Treat yourself to a peace of pizza. A pizza treaty. A peace treaty. Let us ate (pizza) instead of hate.
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