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Other food names that have passed through the Texas pipeline into common usage are chile, enchilada, taco, tamale, tortilla, fríjol, frito, picante, jalapeño, nacho, mescal, tequila , and margarita . It may be interesting to note the Spanish borrowed chile, tamale, mescal , and mesquite from the indigenous Indians before passing them on to us.
The least one may say is that no English dictionary published through 1987 gives a fully correct etymology for tamale or frijol(e) .
My explanation is that English-speakers borrowed Spanish plural tamales (whose singular is tamal ), from which they back-formed a new singular, tamale (i.e.
Maxey Brooke writes [XV,2] that English tamale is from Spanish tamale . There is, however, no such Spanish word.
Thus, by analogy, many Americans make tamale , instead of the correct tamal , the singular of tamales ...