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It has foreign roots but it's surely an English word by any workable definition.
by xnorswap 4y ago
It has foreign roots but it's surely an English word by any workable definition.
- eesmith 4y agoAnd "tsetse" has been used in English for nearly 100 years longer than pizza - the latter only really introduced because of Allied soldiers sent to in Italy. Google Ngram says it wasn't until the 1970s when "pizza" was more commonly used than "tsetse." https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=tsetse%2Cpizza&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=26&smoothing=3 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=tsetse%2Cpizza... . Or from BoingBoing today, "North Americans feared and misunderstood pizza in the 1950s" - https://boingboing.net/2022/11/21/north-americans-feared-and-misunderstood-pizza-in-the-1950s.html https://boingboing.net/2022/11/21/north-americans-feared-and... .