This Week’s Fun & Fancy Word: Macaronic!
This Week’s Fun & Fancy Word Is…
M
acaronic:
You might be expecting macaroons. If that’s the case, you’re gonna have to wait until after dinner. The word macaronic actually refers to when two different languages are mixed together like macaroni and cheese. Seriously. That’s the 15th-century origin of the word – maccarona, a type of dumpling or pasta eaten by peasants at that time.
An example of a macaronic language is Spanglish – with words like hangear [to hang out], lochear [to have lunch], marketa [a market or supermarket].[1] Is English the pasta and Spanish the cheese, or is it the other way around? Either way, it’s delicious.
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[1] Latination. https://latination.com/spanglish-dictionary-usa/
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