There are some terms that make me cringe every time I come across them. The word “tsunami” used in a casual fashion is one of them. So of course, I was quite pleased to read the following piece advising writers and journalists to avoid the term “Tsunami Tuesday.”

http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=31&aid=136877

Something to think about from the piece:

I’m persuaded by a couple of Sreenivasan’s examples of similar phrases we wouldn’t use: “Would we call Giuliani’s drop in the polls his ‘Ground Zero Plummet’?” and “We’d never say, ‘Rudy’s campaign fell like the twin towers.’”