On 6/16/06 8:04 PM, in article 4fh9qmF1ivq58U1@individual.net, "John R.
Yamamoto-Wilson" <john@rarebooksinjapan.com> wrote:

> Oh, it's not confined to katakana words. "Arigatou", for example,
> apparently comes from the Portuguese "obrigado", even though it is
> written in hiragana.
> 

Yeeeee haw!