Re: Bostonites. *ZAP*

Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> wrote:
[snip]
>
> Reminds me of the history of the word "lunch".  Borrowed from Spanish
> "lunjo" ("slice") as "lunch", it originally meant "a small snack", then
> came to mean a mid-day meal, and was artificially lengthened to
> "luncheon".  Now, it's gone full-circle and has been re-shortened to
> "lunch", altho "luncheon" still exists.
I never imagined that "lunch" was Spanish! When was it
borrowed? Today "slice" is _lonja_, though that's a rare
word, at least in my dialect (we say _feta_ [origin?] or
_rodaja_ [?]). In any case, _lunch_ has been reborrowed
into Spanish by certain people (mainly executives).


--Pablo Flores

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