The story of Shinto

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That was informative and the kind of historical trivia that i enjoy learning. Going through the vid i also keenly picked up on a term he glossed over. Honcho.

TIL that honcho is a Japanese term picked up by American POWs. Means squad/group leader

And speaking of which this one i knew but… the English term skosh (to mean a little or small amount) is also derived from the Japanese word Sukoshi

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Papasan say, it don’t rain everyday.

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No rain, no rainbows.

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It’s pretty much the same thing because nobody says the full word “Sukoshi”. In Japanese, it’s generally blurred into “skosh”, I guess kind of “Sukosh” with minimal pronuciation of the “u”. It would be weird to hear someone pronounce the “i”.

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