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Re:“Username cannot contain 'clyde'” by denton-scratch on Monday November 21, 2022 @08:24AM (#33692198)
Tzatziki, Tsetse and Tzar are not English words; OP said there was just one English word (which he identified as "pizza", which isn't an English word).
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Re:“Username cannot contain 'clyde'” by xnorswap on Monday November 21, 2022 @08:30AM (#33692252)
It has foreign roots but it's surely an English word by any workable definition.
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Re:“Username cannot contain 'clyde'” by eesmith on Monday November 21, 2022 @02:18PM (#33696628)
And "tsetse" has been used in English for nearly 100 years longer than pizza - the latter only really introduced because of Allied soldiers sent to in Italy.

Google Ngram says it wasn't until the 1970s when "pizza" was more commonly used than "tsetse." https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=tsetse%2Cpizza... . Or from BoingBoing today, "North Americans feared and misunderstood pizza in the 1950s" - https://boingboing.net/2022/11/21/north-americans-feared-and... .

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