Re: Wikipedia's "List of English words of Japanese origin"

Louise Bremner <dame_zumari@xxxxxxxxx> dixit:
>John J. Chew III <jjchew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> SATSUMA*SATSUMAS n a variety of orange

>Yup. (But I thought it was Britgo only....)

Here "Satsuma" is a variety of plum.

>> SEN n a monetary unit of Japan

>Since when?

I have a 10 sen piece somewhere; 昭和 5 or 6 ISTR. Bought it for almost
nothing at a flea market in Matsumoto in 1982. Now I wish I'd bought
the entire stock.

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Computer Science & Software Engineering,
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