Tjernobyl

English edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Danish Tjernobyl or Swedish Tjernobyl.

Proper noun edit

Tjernobyl

(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.