In the small town of Copparo, in central Italy, a few weeks back, primary school teacher Margherita Aurora, was intrigued when one of her students, used an unfamiliar word in a written assignment. The student, Matteo, described a flower as "petaloso" ("full of petals". The word doesn't exist but grammatically it makes sense as a combination of "petalo" ("petal") and the suffix "-oso" ("full of").
Aurora think how could the eight-year-old Matteo have invented a new word? They wrote to the Accademia della Crusca to ask for their opinion. One of the Crusca's top linguistic experts wrote that the word is well formed and could be used in the Italian language. It's beautiful and clear. So that the word will be official a larg number of people need to use it and undertand the meaning.
The teacher wrote on her Facebook acount the following: "this is worth more than a thousand Italian lessons" and shared pictures of the letter. She triggered a movement. Her Facebook post has been shared more than 80.000 times and on Twitter #petaloso was used almost 40.000 times. The word quickly became the trop trending topic in Italy. "Petaloso its on the way to becoming an official Italian word.
My opinion:
When I read the tittle of the news I thought what was this new word and I wanted to read all the news. It's amazing how an eight-year-old boy invented a new word. This boy in a few years will feel proud of himself. Sometimes, children have twice imagination than adults.
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