SCALLOPINE MEXICA NA

[Laurence Horn]

At 1:20 PM -0400 5/11/06, RonButters at AOL.COM wrote:
>In a message dated 5/11/06 1:08:05 PM, laurence.horn at YALE.EDU writes:
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>>  "El mole poblano": 451 hits
>>  "Il mole poblano": 35 hits, mostly--surprise!--in Italian
>>  "La mole poblano": 1 hit, in French
>>
>>  oh, and just to complete the survey,
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>>  "Le mole poblano":  108 hits
>>
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>Well, check "mole poblana"--95 hits. It appears that MOLE is an epicene noun
>in Spanish.
>
Aha.  Maybe the deciding factor is the sex of the chicken. (FWIW,
I've never seen "mole poblana" on a menu, and I've seen "mole
poblano" a bunch.)

L

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