When you order a tuna fish sandwich, do you say "tuna" or "tuna fish"? (lemmy.world)

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[-] allan@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

Swordfish? Plenty other languages keep the fish-part in the Tuna name, also

[-] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 9 points 11 months 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 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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.

[-] omgitsaheadcrab@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago

German for example

[-] v_krishna@lemmy.ml 5 points 11 months ago

Danish/swedish/norwegian, tunfisk/tonfisk

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