[Ads-l] Tunafish - 1916

[Laurence Horn]

Dissimilation from “tinned tunny”?

> On Jul 26, 2024, at 2:45 PM, James Landau <00000c13e57d49b8-dmarc-request at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> wrote:
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> 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"
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> James Landau
> jjjrlandau at netscape.com
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