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Anyone else remember when tuna was called tunny and you bought cans of tunny in the shops?
When and why did it change, American influence like how stroke is now called slash? |
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It's always been tuna for me. I don't know why you'd think it has anything to do with American influence. Tuna is the actual name of the fish.
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I've never heard it called tunny. It's always been called tuna in our house.
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I guess you two must be younger than me because growing up it was called tunny and it said tunny on the cans as well.
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Where are you from? I've never heard/seen it called tunny before and I'm 50
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England.
It was definitely called tunny or tunny fish when I was younger, tuna is what the Americans called it. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunny
Never heard of it being called tunny, but I don't remember it eating it as a kid either. Tinned salmon was the only tinned fish I can remember and that was strictly for putting on dainty sandwiches for visitors. Seems to be what they called Tuna in the thirties in Scarborough: http://www.scarboroughsmaritimeherit....uk/atunny.php http://www.fishingmuseum.org.uk/tunny.html Are you from that neck of the woods, OP? |
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Tunny sounds like a local slang name, always been tuna to me, I'm 55.
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Looked at the John West site and there's a picture of a can from 1972 and it does say tuna so it looks like I was wrong about the canned tunny, but I can definitely remember it being called tunny on the TV and the BBC and that being the correct British name for it, I guess either the American way of calling it tuna took over or we started calling it tuna because that's what canned tunny was called and we got it from that.
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Why do you think tuna is an Americanism? It may well have been called tunny in some parts of the country, but in most of the English-speaking world it has always been called tuna. That is the name of the fish.
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(Little) Tunny is a species of Tuna
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It's always been tuna for me. I don't know why you'd think it has anything to do with American influence. Tuna is the actual name of the fish.
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I have only seen "Tunny fish" abroad.
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Tunny is the word that was used in old English, I guess it may have hung around for longer in some areas of the country than others and become a bit of a colloquialism for a while. I don't think it has much to do with America, more the globalisation of products and the normalisation of one word for a product. Tuna was first sold in tins in 1903 apparently, so I guess that is when the change became widespread.
Edit: apparently they called it tunny in Australia and New Zealand as well |
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I have never heard it being called tunny and I am only a year younger than the op (assuming the age on her profile is correct). I am going with it being a regional term for it too.
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