When you order a tuna fish sandwich, do you say "tuna" or "tuna fish"?
When you order a tuna fish sandwich, do you say "tuna" or "tuna fish"?
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As far as I know Tuna-fish is only a nth American thing and sounds very weird to my ears.
So this vote will likely be Nth America vs the rest.
Honestly, why only tuna fish?
Salmon-fish?
Chicken-bird?
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You can tune a piano but you can't tune a fish
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But you can tuna fish, so where does that leave us?
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I guess it leaves us with Sandwich fillings
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That was a great album.
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How do you install this, then?
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Off-key.
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"tunafish" sounds weird but "nth American" (not first or second or thirteenth but nth) sounds fine?
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‘We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language’ - Oscar Wilde
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We don't talk about 1st America and 2nd America
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"North", I assume
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Swordfish? Plenty other languages keep the fish-part in the Tuna name, also
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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?
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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.
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German for example
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Danish/swedish/norwegian, tunfisk/tonfisk
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We do have a tuna cactus here that people eat. Nopales are from the Tuna. Prickly pear fruit also. That cactus is called Tuna here.
I mean the fish when I say Tuna though, and would say Prickly Pear cactus.
But do hear Tuna often used to mean the plant.
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Human-sapien?
Human-homo?
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Human-mammal would be the closest taxonomically.
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And what about the tuna-cat and tuna-bird?
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Jay bird
Panda bear
Scarab beetles
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There's a few other redundant versions, like how they say "horse-back riding". Why not bikeseat riding or plane cockpit flying?
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