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Showcasing the brazen and nouveau in English communication.
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I was struggling to figure out why those words were relevant for a minute. Then I figured it out that, if you thought of someone saying the English word in the worst most racist Japanese accent it sounds like those words.
Yup. Merry-Go-Round is called merigoraundo (メリーゴーラウンド) or merigorando (メリーゴーランド).