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Climate change is having
on language – the
of new words. Japan's Meteorological Agency (JMA) has introduced a new word into the Japanese
. The word is "kokushobi," which
means "cruelly hot day" or "
hot day". It will be used when describing or forecasting days when
are 40ºC or above. There was an online
of weather-based
. The questionnaire was because of the recent scorching weather. Website visitors selected their preferred word. There were 478,000
. The word kokushobi got
203,000 votes.
