sushero
n.— «Abril1996—junio1996…sushero…restaurant japones banzai.» —“Administracion de Empresas” by Ricardo Sanchez Coellar in Guadalajara, Mexico Usenet: es.alt.anuncios.trabajo.demandas Nov. 4, 1998. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Brian from Lafayette, Indiana, wonders why chicken is abbreviated CHX in the restaurant industry. Using X as a substitute or shortener has a long history. Medieval scribes sometimes drew a line through the final stroke of an abbreviated word. This...
In Japanese, the word san (さん) means “three” and kyuu (きゅう) means “nine.” Said together, the words sound like English “thank you,” so back in the 1990s, when pagers were all the rage among Japanese teens, typing 999 was a quick way to punningly...