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“What?” Goines inquired, in the shorthand that had evolved from his various ways of asking her what she was finding funny or otherwise interesting.
“The people of Tunisia are obsessed with tuna. They put tuna on pizza, pastries, and in many other dishes.”
Goines joked that was probably why the country was named “Tunisia.”
And then he wondered why Tunisia (تونِس) wasn’t spelled “Tunasi,” pronounced “tuna sea,” but he didn’t have the Arabic for that thought, nor the pronunciation.
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