[WikiEN-l] Tsunamis and disaster articles

[Carcharoth]

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 11:46 PM, Bob the Wikipedian
<bobthewikipedian at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm not sure how helpful it is, but yesteryear's word for "tsunami" was
> "typhoon". You might consider searching for typhoons as well.

I'm not sure that is correct. Typhoons are hurricanes. Are you
thinking of "tidal wave"? They aren't that either, but I saw another
Wikipedian using the term tidal wave and I cringed. Apologies if that
Wikipedian is reading this! :-)

Carcharoth