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Re: (Sumo) The Announcers

The announcer either did not come from California - tsunami is not exactly a
part of most middle-Americans' vocabularies (or at least not until very
recently)- or else it was Dave Wiggins !

Babanoshuzan

Richard Webb wrote:

> I couldn't
> stop laughing about that one (since tsunami is a part of the ordinary
> English vocabulary, at least where I grew up in California, who would have
> thought an English speaking announcer would not know what a tsunami
> was--much less when they are broadcasting on a Japanese station!).
>