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{ "etymology_text": "Coined by Apple employee Jim Reekes in 1991, as a faux-Japanese word that in fact was a phonetic rendering of so sue me, in reference to an ongoing lawsuit with Apple Corps over use of musical chimes.", "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "-" }, "expansion": "sosumi (uncountable)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English nouns", "English uncountable nouns", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries", "en:Apple Inc." ], "glosses": [ "An alert chime sampled from a xylophone, used by Apple Inc. computers." ], "links": [ [ "alert", "alert" ], [ "chime", "chime" ], [ "xylophone", "xylophone" ] ], "tags": [ "uncountable" ], "wikipedia": [ "sosumi" ] } ], "word": "sosumi" }
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