• @Moneo
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    231 year ago

    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.

    • ASeriesOfPoorChoices
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      1 year ago

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

      • @agnomeunknown
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        191 year ago

        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.