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From: aeb@mcvax.UUCP (Andries Brouwer)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: Tuna Fish
Message-ID: <617@mcvax.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 21-Apr-85 21:08:38 EST
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Posted: Sun Apr 21 21:08:38 1985
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In article <5070@ukc.UUCP> ncg@ukc.UUCP (Nigel Gale) writes:
>Tuna Fish  is an Americanism, I think.
Yes, and so was tuna - it is the Caribbean Spanish word.

>I don't know of anyone else who uses the redundant 'fish'.
>But I could be wrong. (Am I supposed to say tuna fish?)
No, you were supposed to say tunny (fish).