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Bologna refers to a type of sausage made of finely ground meat that has been cooked and smoked. Baloney is nonsense. It is an early 20th-century American coinage derived from bologna. It may also be influenced by blarney, which in one of its definitions means nonsense or deceptive talk.
Our reference sources differ on whether baloney and bologna are homophones in English. Some say both should be pronounced “baloney,” while others say bologna should be pronounced like the Italian city, Bologna (“boloan-ya”), where the sausage originates. But everyone agrees that the two spellings have different meanings.
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[–] 2676323? 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Isn't it bologna?
[–] 2676372? [S] 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
http://grammarist.com/usage/baloney-bologna/
[–] odinist 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Neat, TIL.
[–] 2676408? 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
You should have asked the oed