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It's truly a shame (startrek.website)
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[–] 23 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I know this is a joke but idc. The reason for basically every quirk of pronunciation/spelling in English is borrowed words, of which English has very many. Tamales is an obvious/good example.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    Except it's not even a borrowed word. It's still a Spanish word. nope, I was wrong.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    It's a borrowed word because we don't have a translation, though. Tamales are tamales. Also we say tamale for singular but it's tamal in Spanish. It's a loan word in every way.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Also we say tamale for singular

    Who's this "we"?

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