[Ads-l] Tunafish - 1916

[James Landau]

On Wed, 24 Jul 2024 23:45:23 Zone-0400  victor steinbok <aardvark66 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>OED has "tuna fish" as "canned tunny" with earliest quotation from 1917. 
I find this OED entry odd.  "tunny" is a Briticism, but my understanding is that British people use "tinned" instead of "canned"

James Landau
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