Editing Tsunami (section)

===Tsunami===
{{infobox Chinese
|pic=Tsunami (Chinese characters).svg
|piccap="Tsunami" in ''[[kanji]]''
|picupright=0.35
|kanji=津波
|hiragana=つなみ
|katakana=ツナミ
|romaji=tsunami
}}
The term "tsunami" is a [[loan word|borrowing]] from the Japanese {{nihongo||津波|tsunami}}, meaning 'harbour wave'. For the plural, one can either follow ordinary English practice and add an ''s'', or use an invariable plural as in the Japanese.<ref>[a. Jap. tsunami, tunami, f. tsu harbour + nami waves.—''Oxford English Dictionary'']</ref> Some English speakers alter the word's initial {{IPAslink|ts}} to an {{IPAslink|s}} by dropping the "t," since English does not natively permit {{IPA|/ts/}} at the beginning of words, though the original Japanese pronunciation is {{IPA|/ts/}}. The term has become commonly accepted in English, although its literal Japanese meaning is not necessarily descriptive of the waves, which do not occur only in harbours.