jc@mit-athena.UUCP (John Chambers) (04/26/85)
Both "tunafish salad" and "tuna salad" sound just fine to me. They even mean the same thing. I think I'd more likely use the latter, but maybe it's because I'm lazy. I also prefer "use" to "utilize". [Here comes another long discussion...] My native dialect is that of the Seattle area. Any others want to admit which sounds better to them, and where they learned to talk? I also tend to say "gull" rather than "seagull", as do the bird books, but again both sound OK. I've noticed that some people in the Midwest refer to the local gulls as "seagulls"; this somehow strikes me as anomalous. Any more votes? -- John Chambers [...!decvax!mit-athena] He who has made no mistakes has probably made nothing at all.
sullivan@harvard.ARPA (John M. Sullivan) (04/27/85)
> Both "tunafish salad" and "tuna salad" sound just fine to me. > John Chambers [...!decvax!mit-athena] I would agree with this. But somehow "tunafish sandwich" sounds much better than "tuna sandwich". Of course it could be called a "tuna salad sandwich". -- John M. Sullivan sullivan@harvard