Usage
I'm really not sure how long "cour" has had currency in English. There are attestations from at least as early as 2007.2 I thinkthat's not too long after the term began to see usage in English-speaking anime communities, but I could very well be mistaken. This term was probably quickly adopted because it provides an unambiguous way to refer to a ro
Etymology
This usage of the word "cour" in English is (perhaps surprisingly) a borrowing of the Japanese word クール (kuuru), which means essentially the same thing as the English "cour". Japanese kuuru is itself a borrowing, though the language of origin is not known with certainty. The most popular hypothesis is that it derives from French cours, cognate to "
Derived Jargon
A split-cour show is one which has a total duration of two cours, arranged such that the show airs for one cour, is on break for the next cour, and airs again in the following cour. Unlike ordinary