At 12:09:23 PM on Saturday, September 6, 2003, aquila_grande
wrote:
> By the way, is not the finnish word "sisu" (guts, courage)
> also used in english?
Not to my knowledge. It does appear (and is defined) in
Heinlein's juvenile _Citizen of the Galaxy_, in which
Finnish is the language of a nomadic culture of galactic
free traders, but that's the only instance that comes to
mind, and even there it's treated as a foreign word.
Brian