On Fri, 07 Sep 2018 20:46:07 -0400, Doris Night
> wrote:

>On Fri, 7 Sep 2018 20:34:59 GMT, "l not -l" > wrote:
>
>>This thread and another that mentioned a fried cod meal got me to thinking;
>>I wonder why cod is often called codfish and tuna is often called tunafish.
>>I don't know of anything other than fish that is known as cod or tuna. No
>>other fish I know are referred to by anything other than their specie name;
>>no tilapiafish or salmonfish or whatever. Just one of those odd things
>>that I sometimes wonder about.
>
>What about monkfish?

Otherwise it would be confusing if you said "we had a monk for dinner
yesterday".