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"Hot" is an English word, of course. "Tamale" is the name of a food made by stuffing a corn husk with corn meal and other ingredients, such as shredded pork. In Spanish the singular is "tamal," and the plural is "tamales" (and the "e" is pronounced. When the word was adopted into English we kept the "e' in the singular.

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