"BAC" wrote in message
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"Stuart" wrote in message
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A tidal wave is something completely
different to a tsunami, but a lot of people don't seem to realise this.

For the last time, it is not.

Get hold of a dictionary and look up the meaning.

Maybe its a common use of it, but its not correct, as those of us with
degrees in geology know. It may have become an alternative name for those
who don't know better, but the original meaning is quite different.


Interesting. What, then, would you say is the 'correct' meaning of 'tidal
wave', and why do you think that to be the 'original' meaning?

(All this, of course, is yet more evidence in favour of the proposition
that
'tidal wave' is much more likely to be misunderstood than 'tsunami')


The Severn Bore is a tidal wave.