On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 12:25:04 +0100, wrote:

On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 12:01:22 +0100, Tim Challenger
wrote:

On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 13:21:24 +0100, wrote:

On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 11:57:00 +0000, June Hughes
wrote:

In message , Cerumen
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On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 16:09:33 -0000, "Bob Hobden"
wrote:

The main risk is the big piece of rock which is expected to fall off
an island in the Canaries, generate a tidal wave that will wipe out
the East Coats of the USA and not do a lot of good to the low
countries.

Apparently a tsunami hit the west coast of Ireland in 1775 ? after a
seismic event near the Azores and Canaries causing some considerable
damage..

I believe that was the earthquake and tsunami that wiped out Lisbon.

When did everybody start calling a tidal wave a tsunami and why?

Why not use the Japanese word for earthquake too?

If you studied geology you'd have used the word frequently since at least
the mid 1970s.

"Tidal Waves" were covered in the GCE O level geography syllabus back
in the nineteen fifties

Of course, what I meant was that it's not a new word in English, it's been
around for decades at least in technical use, not that it is or has been a
replacement for tidalwave.
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Tim C.