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From: jc@mit-athena.UUCP (John Chambers)
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Subject: Re: tuna vs. tunafish
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Date: Thu, 25-Apr-85 17:25:25 EST
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Both "tunafish salad" and "tuna salad" sound just fine to me.
They even mean the same thing.  I think I'd more likely use
the latter, but maybe it's because I'm lazy.  I also prefer
"use" to "utilize".  [Here comes another long discussion...]

My native dialect is that of the Seattle area.  Any others
want to admit which sounds better to them, and where they
learned to talk?

I also tend to say "gull" rather than "seagull", as do the
bird books, but again both sound OK.  I've noticed that some
people in the Midwest refer to the local gulls as "seagulls";
this somehow strikes me as anomalous.  Any more votes?

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			John Chambers [...!decvax!mit-athena]

He who has made no mistakes has probably made nothing at all.