HOCKEY 2012
Sep 20th 2012 | 2:53 am
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Sep 20th 2012 | 3:55 am
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Re: HOCKEY 2012
Like calling soccer "field football"
I like to watch the leafs get all our hopes up right up until November, and then screw up the season over Xmas.
Now nowt? Not even Blackpool on TV? :@(
Just Premiership Field Football on Sultana!!!!
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Sep 20th 2012 | 4:20 am
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Re: HOCKEY 2012
And if it's "just hockey," why is the sport's governing body the International Ice Hockey Federation or IIHF?
Sep 20th 2012 | 4:44 am
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Re: HOCKEY 2012
"Soccer" as a short form for "association football" gives cause for wry amusement in the supposedly classless sports clubs of the US and Canada. How many North Americans realise that they are perpetuating a slang term coined in the rarefied social heights of Rugby School and Oxford University in the 1880s (same formation as "rugger" for Rugby football), and re-invented by the likes of Eton- and Oxford-educated Johnners, along with Aggers, Blowers, Bearders, Tuffers, etc on Test Match Special?
And if it's "just hockey," why is the sport's governing body the International Ice Hockey Federation or IIHF?
And if it's "just hockey," why is the sport's governing body the International Ice Hockey Federation or IIHF?
Typical Americans bastardizing our language to suit their needs
Now is it spelt programme or program? color or colour etc etc
Sep 20th 2012 | 5:27 am
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Re: HOCKEY 2012
"Soccer" as a short form for "association football" gives cause for wry amusement in the supposedly classless sports clubs of the US and Canada. How many North Americans realise that they are perpetuating a slang term coined in the rarefied social heights of Rugby School and Oxford University in the 1880s (same formation as "rugger" for Rugby football), and re-invented by the likes of Eton- and Oxford-educated Johnners, along with Aggers, Blowers, Bearders, Tuffers, etc on Test Match Special?
And if it's "just hockey," why is the sport's governing body the International Ice Hockey Federation or IIHF?
And if it's "just hockey," why is the sport's governing body the International Ice Hockey Federation or IIHF?
Sep 20th 2012 | 5:30 am
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Sep 20th 2012 | 5:36 am
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Re: HOCKEY 2012
Ok here why
A guy said so near we're I used to live, he was Canadian so there for it is!
Fully explained, now go eat some sunflower seeds and move on. :@)
A guy said so near we're I used to live, he was Canadian so there for it is!
Fully explained, now go eat some sunflower seeds and move on. :@)
Sep 20th 2012 | 8:00 am
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Sep 20th 2012 | 9:11 am
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Sep 20th 2012 | 9:39 am
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Sep 20th 2012 | 2:52 pm
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Re: HOCKEY 2012
People who say 'iced hockey' are infuriating but then that's the intention I suppose ...
Sep 20th 2012 | 10:48 pm
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Re: HOCKEY 2012
"Iced hockey" is an expresssion specific to this board, I don't suppose I'd use it in real life, were there ever an occasion to mention iced hockey in real life. I expect I'd call it ice hockey. Still, not likely to crop up, is it? There not being any.
Sep 21st 2012 | 2:46 am
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Sep 21st 2012 | 3:06 am
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Re: HOCKEY 2012
And it's not "Ice Hockey Night in Canada" no one says ice, iced or frosty hockey.
