On 28-jan-05, at 1:54, SPlinta wrote:
That's so you can say, "you can tune a flute but you can't tunafish"; see the new hackers' dictionary for a context to this pun -- look for 'fs'
hmmm thanks for that...... I have a Canadian friend (Scromboid
artist extrodinaire, actually) who is driven crazy by the fact that
Americans insist on saying "fish" after the word Tuna"'.....
as if it might be confused with Tuna chicken or Tuna beef......
she also points out that we never end another fish food with the
word "fish"... like haddock fish or trout fish or salmon fish,
etc....
just one of those odd things that make you wonder where that little
trailing word became common place in the language....
Any way, now it bothers me..... at least I have to think about it all
whenever I hear it.....
Splinta
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