Sean to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world • 10 months agoWhen you order a tuna fish sandwich, do you say "tuna" or "tuna fish"?message-square98fedilinkarrow-up192file-text
arrow-up192message-squareWhen you order a tuna fish sandwich, do you say "tuna" or "tuna fish"?Sean to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world • 10 months agomessage-square98fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarePons_Aeliuslinkfedilink9•10 months agoNot 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?
minus-square@Dicska@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink7•edit-210 months agoHungarian 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.
Not the same as there is no one calling a swordfish just sword.
Do they? Which ones?
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.
German for example
Danish/swedish/norwegian, tunfisk/tonfisk