[Ads-l] Slight Antedating of "Tsunami"

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tsunami (OED 1896 [23 July])

1896 Examiner (San Francisco) 13 July 1/1 (Newspapers.com)

The dreaded tsunami (sea wave) was not altogether new to some of those who were so soon to become its victims.

Fred Shapiro

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