Sunday, January 09, 2005

A new English word

There's now a new word in common use in the English language. You now, used by school kids and housewives and blokes in the pub: TSUNAMI.

It joins just a few other Japanese words that have entered the English language like kamikaze and samurai and sushi.

And it joins a few other words (and phrases) that have recently entered into common usage in the English language: Weapons of Mass Destruction, coalition, embedded, terrorist, fundamentalist, Christian right, same-sex, jihad, suicide bomber, 9/11, 24/7 and ground zero.

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