Cartoon #2 for today: a Bizarro:
Recutting (or metanalysis — see here) at work, with the pro of provolone and the anti of antipasto treated as derivational prefixes. Historically, the provol- part of provolone represents provola, a type of Italian cheese (made with cow or buffalo milk), and the anti- part of antipasto is ante- ‘before’.
July 20, 2011 at 2:22 am |
and the –one suffix means “big” or “large”