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The pronunciation "baloney" for "bologna" likely came about due to the difficulty some English speakers had in pronouncing the Italian word correctly. This kind of shift in pronunciation, called a folk etymology, is not uncommon in language evolution.

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Where does the word baloney come from?

The word 'baloney' is a modification of the word 'bologna'. Bologna originated in the Italian city of Bologna, and was therefore named after it.


How do you spell bullonie?

The name for finely ground sausage is spelled bologna.(The slang term for nonsense, pronounced the same, is baloney.)


What is baloney?

Baloney is a variety of smoked sausage, also known as bologna.


How do you spell bologne?

Either bologna or baloney.


What does full of baloney?

1.)When one is "full of baloney (bologna)" it means the information they offer is nonsense, incredible, not trustworthy, foolishness. 2.)Orgin of bologna and "Baloney" is a corruption, through the French, of the city of Bologna, Italy. As the university at Bologna was known for its legal education, the French, and later English, came to call legal clap-trap "Balogna," or "Baloney."


Why is bologna spelled so funny?

It isn't spelled funny - it's pronounced funny. The sausage we know as bologna originated in Bologna, Italy, and is (to be stuffy) properly pronounced boh-LO-nuh. Common American usage adapted that into "baloney", which is so widespread it is futile to try and change it. The reason manufacturers don't put the word "baloney" on the label is because that word also means "nonsense" or "horse hockey" in colloquial English.


What is the meaning of baloney?

1.)When one is "full of baloney (bologna)" it means the information they offer is nonsense, incredible, not trustworthy, foolishness. 2.)Orgin of bologna and "Baloney" is a corruption, through the French, of the city of Bologna, Italy. As the university at Bologna was known for its legal education, the French, and later English, came to call legal clap-trap "Balogna," or "Baloney."


How do you spell bolonie?

The finely-ground American sausage is spelled bologna, or more rarely boloney or baloney.The spelling baloney is often used to mean nonsense or a fabrication.


Why do you say that's baloney?

because people were passing off bologna as ham. So when you see the fraud, you are to yell "thats bologna!!!!"


What is balogan made of?

"Balogun" is a surname from Yaruba. If the question concerns the sausage "bologna,"often pronounced "baloney," it is made of very finely ground meat (poultry, beef or pork) combined with salt, spices and preservatives.


The American food baloney takes its name from which Italian city?

Bologna (pronounce Bol-on-nyuh)


Is baloney a type of fruit?

No, it's a cold cut, a type of meat, properly spelled "bologna".