Tjernobyl

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English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Danish Tjernobyl or Swedish Tjernobyl.

Proper noun

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Tjernobyl

  1. (non-native speakers' English) Chernobyl (a city in Ukraine)
    • 1997 July 14, Lars Magnusson, “Global Worries (was: global warming)”, in talk.environment[1] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-03:
      OK, living in the reinder belt of Scandinavia, the weapon tests hasn't poisoned us that much and the plutonium hasn't been that much of a problem, but jee, you shure has dug you head into the ground like a ostridge. Have you never heard of a fishy place called Tjernobyl. That bastard is still giving people here cancer. Since we have less of the shit called Strontium 90 ( not as poisones as plutonium, but shure as deadly), they every year sends a lot of cancerous children from the area around Tjernobyl to us for a "clean" summer holiday.
    • 1998 July 6, Mare, “Unmentioned abuse”, in alt.talk.bestiality[2] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-03:
      How many new things have we found (virus or bacteria doesn't matter) and still more are coming, AIDS? do you belive[sic] it has been there always? do you remember Tjernobyl? nothing to do with virus or bacteria, but what happened? I would say humans stupidity (money again) give them some not so hightech equipment that doesn't work 100% and then let some ppl that don't know what it is use it.
    • 2003 May 9, Torbjörn Svensson Diaz, “Evolutionar Leap in the Tjernobyl Area”, in sci.bio.evolution[3] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-03:
      I have a couple of questions regarding evoultionary pace, ionizing radiation and Tjernobyl. I'd be very grateful if anyone would take the time to answer these questions.

Danish

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Proper noun

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Tjernobyl

  1. Chernobyl (a city in Ukraine)

Swedish

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Proper noun

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Tjernobyl n (genitive Tjernobyls)

  1. Chernobyl (a city in Ukraine)