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Interestingly, whereas tamale and frijole have acquired a nonetymological vowel, blints has lost an etymological vowel.
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 ...
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.
A different explanation of tamale was offered in American Speech 48, 3-4, 1973, p.