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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Ella Creamer

The Oxford English Dictionary’s latest update adds 23 Japanese words

A boomerang word … Katsu has been added to the OED
A boomerang word … Katsu has been added to the OED. Photograph: Saowaluck Voraprukpisut/Getty Images/iStockphoto

Katsu, donburi and onigiri are among 23 Japanese words added to the Oxford English Dictionary in its latest update.

More than half of the borrowed words relate to food or cooking. Santoku, a knife with a short, flat blade that curves down at the tip, and okonomiyaki, a type of savoury pancake, were both added. Okonomiyaki is derived from okonomi, meaning “what you like”, combined with yaki, meaning “to fry, to sear”.

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