# Why do we say tuna "fish" sandwich?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 5, 1999, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-we-say-tuna-fish-sandwich/5236 "1999-12-05T22:36:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![mr\_john](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@mr\_john](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mr_john)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 1999, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-we-say-tuna-fish-sandwich/5236/21 "1999-12-10T06:04:00Z")

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Lots of tuna grownin along the Reyeo Grandee river, lota crawDADS too.Probably tuna at THE La Brea Tar Pits too. But I don’t think I want any tar on my steakfish samich. Just some SPICY picante sauce and some friole BEANS.You can get some at THE El Chicos on Calle del Roble Street. I have heard well spoken people regularly use the term trout fish. (These repetitive redundancies were brought to you by that obnoxious idiot mr john. sig.mr john’s computer)

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**Author:** ![NanoByte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecc23a/32.png) [@NanoByte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NanoByte)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 1999, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-we-say-tuna-fish-sandwich/5236/22 "1999-12-10T07:48:00Z")

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Re-dundancies like ‘Sierra Nevada Mountains’ compensate for undone-dencies like ‘Vegas’. So, already, why don’t they just call them ‘dundancies’ – why '_ **re** _-dundancies?

[Well, OK, having been told in another post to look in the dictionary, I find that the prefix, a Latin intensive, is actually \*red-[/], coupled with the Latin _undare_ to surge \< _unda_ wave, but that spoils all the fun.]

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