Re: Aussie terminology question
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, February 7, 2005, 1:12 |
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On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 11:10:57AM +1100, Tristan McLeay wrote:
> (I hold that calling *anything* 'football' is deviant, because it
> always refers to the dominant football code in your area: a linguistic
> variable.)
The only problem with that idea is that the game played by the USA's
National Football League HAS no other name but "football". The term
"Gridiron" properly refers only to the field on which the game is
played; it was applied to the game itself only recently (and fairly
briefly) as part of its introduction in Europe. I don't think even the name
is still used by NFL Europe.
-Marcos
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