Mick Abrahams the original guitar player for Jethro Tull dead at 82. He was only on the first album.
Aw, geez! I didn’t know Samantha Eggar had died.
James Ransone, ‘The Wire’ actor, dead by suicide at 46
Won an Oscar for Amadeus.
No more “Driving Home for Christmas” for Chris Rea.
Rea was an older surprise star in the 1980’s in Europe, deserving his success. Hearing of his passing, I also recalled his massive health issues in this millennium. He would’ve made a really good candidate in this macabre game.
I never heard that song, but “Fool If You Think It’s Over” is nigh unavoidable on some of my Sirius XM stations.
Vince Zampella, creator of the video game series Call of Duty, has died at age 54. Car accident.
age 88
Charles Norman Shay, combat medic, D-Day veteran, author, and first American Indian inducted into France’s Legion of Honor.
Masashi “Jumbo” Ozaki has died of Colon-rectal Cancer at age 78/
Jumbo was a pro golfer who won 94 times on the Japan golf Tour. He played a few tournaments on the US PGA Tour but his game never traveled well outside Japan. He had Top 10’s in the Masters, US Open and British Open. Jumbo had two younger that have had success on the Japan golf tour.
On my personal list of nicknames, “Jumbo” is the very last one I would like to be called.
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Maybe it means something different in Japan? I assume you’re thinking of Jumbo as in elephant.
Prolific “That Guy!” actor Pat Finn is off the call sheet at 60.
Joe Mayo!
I immediately think of former NFL player Jumbo Elliot. He’s 6’7” 300 something pounds.
The story I have always heard is that Jumbo the elephant was named the Swahili word for “Hello,” which is something like “Jambe,” because the elephant responded positively to the word, and so was thought to be friendly. He was given the name to emphasize this characteristic, rather than something that would make him out to be fierce, because he was marketed as a “gentle giant.”
His skeleton is preserved and on display, so it’s been measured, and he was a very big African elephant, and quite possibly the largest one in captivity in his time.
I’ve heard men’s names from language backgrounds near the area Jumbo was from, and some of them are similar to Jumbo, like Mjombo. It’s also not impossible that he was just given an ordinary name, and it was corrupted by English speakers to Jumbo.
At any rate, Japanese is a language that thrives on loan words, like English does. It is just as likely to have absorbed “Jumbo” from English, as it is to have gotten “Jambe” from Swahili, and English speakers hear as the closest word they know, which is Jumbo. Or, it could just coincidentally be a Japanese word that sounds like “Jumbo.”
Does anyone know whether Japanese has the “J:” sound?
I would assume yes based on the most prevalent romanization transliteration system:
ETA: Also, Japanese films with J sounds in the title. (E.g. Yojimbo)