When you order a tuna fish sandwich, do you say "tuna" or "tuna fish"? - eviltoast

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    • Pons_Aelius@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Not the same as there is no one calling a swordfish just sword.

      Plenty other languages keep the fish-part in the Tuna name

      Do they? Which ones?

      • Dicska@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Hungarian here. Probably it would sound weird without the ‘fish’ bit, since we call it ‘tonhal’ (‘hal’ meaning fish). I just can’t imagine someone offering some tuna to me, asking ‘Ton?’.

        EDIT: However, in English, I call it tuna, not tuna fish.