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A simple word. I wonder if it has any links to the Dutch golf meaning a wave?
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Re: golf
Not according to etymonline.com:A simple word. I wonder if it has any links to the Dutch golf meaning a wave?
mid-15c., Scottish gouf, usually taken as an alteration of Middle Dutch colf, colve "stick, club, bat," from Proto-Germanic *kulth- (cf. Old Norse kolfr "clapper of a bell," German Kolben "mace, club"). The game is from 14c., the word is first mentioned (along with fut-bol) in a 1457 Scottish statute on forbidden games. Golf ball attested from 1540s.
Interesting to learn that footie used to be a forbidden game.
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Re: golf
Many thanks, Slava.
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Re: golf
I beg forgiveness. I used that one because I didn't want to use either football or soccer, which could lead to confustication.Footie? Blasphemy!
Why is footie blasphemy, by the way? I thought it was a commonly used term. At least I didn't write footsie, as that's something completely different. Different game altogether.
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Re: golf
Footsie I know. Footie I don't. Footsie is a delightful game I recommend for the young and unattached. At a crowded table, one should make sure just who one's footsie partner is.
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Re: golf
Footie (or footy) is a commonly used term meaning football (or soccer); a sport almost universally popular in other parts of the world than the US. As Albert Camus said “Everything I know about morality and the obligations of men, I owe it to football.” He may be slightly misquoted but his meaning is generally clear for a philosopher - it may be better to look to simple pursuits for moral guidance than 'overblown, high falutin' claptrap'.
Some may find that concept blasphemous That would be their lookout.
Some may find that concept blasphemous That would be their lookout.
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