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From: bob@vaxwaller.UUCP (Bob Palin)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: Tuna Fish
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Date: Tue, 23-Apr-85 11:21:36 EST
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It's surprising how such a simple word can generate all this discussion, anyway
tuna appears to be the American spelling of tunny which is the original 
English word for tuna though I think most English people now call it tuna.
Tuna is also the prickly pear which is from a Haitian word and, in New Zealand,
is a common species of eel so called by the Maori people.

Bob Palin, Varian Instruments, Walnut Creek, Ca.