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Macaroon is just the English word for the French word macaron.

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Macaroon is a completely different confectionery: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaroon

Sure, but Macarons (the burger-looking things) are also sometimes known as "macaroons". Yeah.

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The fact that people say it doesn't make it any less wrong. :)

If enough people do it for long enough, it does. After all, that's how we got the rest of the words.

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The people in your 3 examples are wrong.

And Macaron is the French word for Macaroni. Think how that makes the Italians feel.