Who didn’t have an old aunt or a grandmother who used to carry around one of those big bags filled with everything the world could contain? Or at least so we thought when we were kids. One of those Mary Poppins’ purses that could materialize anything from a handkerchief to a box of chocolate pralines. Well, the Italian word “prego” is very similar to one of those fabled bags. It might be a small word, but it contains multitudes. Of course, this makes for a very tricky word to learn to use and also for a very important one to get right from the get-go.
