Ok, that is very fair. That's on me for not reading the wikipedia article. I did not understand that part of the argument. I agree with you then that it would have been better to follow that convention.
Did they go as far as nameing one individual piese a cadcatello?
Well lot's of pasta also end in I because of the plural, like ravioli, spaghetti, cannelloni, rigatoni, tagliolini, bucatini, capellini, fusilli, gnocchi, cappelletti...
A