The word "sunburn" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a condition caused by too much sun exposure, and it can also be used to refer to the sensation of skin that has been burned by the sun. For example, "My shoulders were so badly sunburned that I couldn't wear tank tops for weeks afterwards."
When these people arrive at Australian detention centres, they are left with severe sunburn and skin rashes, sitting in clothing drenched with faeces and urine while they await interrogation.
Criticising Obama for identifying climate change rather than Islamic State terrorists as the country's most serious threat in his State of the Union address last week, Huckabee said: "Mr President, I would think that a beheading is a far greater threat to an American than a sunburn".
"It's comparable to getting a sunburn on your lungs.
IT IS an experience which, like sunburn, will be familiar to most British holidaymakers travelling in Europe: the inept struggle with a foreign language which is the common legacy of bad schooling and stubborn insularity.
"I am proud of my sunburn," he says, having recently arrived in Iraq's southern port city of Basra after a hot, month-long expedition to sail three traditional boats from the river Tigris's source in south-eastern Turkey.
Despite the catastrophe in 1996, when a dozen climbers died on the mountain, there appears to be no shortage of marginally qualified dreamers who are prepared to pay at least $65,000 in order to be exposed to frostbite, dehydration, sunburn, memory loss and piles the average lot of the high-altitude mountaineer.
Standing half in the sun and half under an awning gets me a sunburn that is only half as painful but looks twice as stupid.
Even when Kingston is burning, foreigners in all-inclusive enclaves suffer few discomforts other than sunburn.
Research shows that fish oil is beneficial for rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, cardiovascular disease, ulcerative colitis, manic-depression, migraines, menstrual pain, high blood pressure, sunburn prevention and other health problems.
Sales of potions that discourage wrinkles, protect or restore hair, prevent sunburn and cellulite and so on grew by 41% in 1995-99, according to Euromonitor.
Indeed, going bust has been as predictable a feature of Britain's charter travel market as sunburn, sex, cheap wine and revolting food.
