No one has ever used the Italian singular of that word in English. As a loan word, it does not have to follow Italian grammar rules, and similar to pasta, it can be used both as countable and uncountable (i.e. a generic category term without plural).
I hate to break it to you, but calamari IS the plural.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squid_as_food#Etymology
Of course it is. What kind of argument would I have if it weren’t?
But the singular was never used in the tweet.
“what calamari is”, two times.
No one has ever used the Italian singular of that word in English. As a loan word, it does not have to follow Italian grammar rules, and similar to pasta, it can be used both as countable and uncountable (i.e. a generic category term without plural).
That’s correct.
Okay, so we agree there’s no problem here?
Yes
Alright then. Glad we could sort it out.