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Re: Tortilla as a female name
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I got to thinking of the etymology of the word, and found this on yourdictionary.com:"American Spanish, diminutive of Spanish torta, cake, from Late Latin, a kind of bread."Perhaps in its original context, the girl was being called something that seemed to a native speaker like "cupcake"? Just speculating.
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