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Sport's Wonderful World of Words
From birdies to googlies, ducks to love sport has a wide and sometimes baffling vocabulary. Simon Horobin Professor of English at Oxford University is here to explain all
What Links Tennis and Cricket to the Humble Egg
Why eggs play such an important part in the language of tennis and golf!
Originally Rugby Terms: Quarterback and Touchdown
Whilst some of the original language found in rugby has moved to American football, it still has a rich vocabulary derived from the strangest of places.
The Medieval Maul
Ruck, maul and scrum. The medieval and military root of the language of rugby
We used to have names for golf clubs... the Mashie, the Niblick the JiggerSimon Horobin Professor of English at Oxford University
Sadly some of the words of golf are no longer used
From Mulligans to Birdies and Beyond
From birdies to mulligans we look at where the language of golf comes from
Where do cricket terms like sticky wicket come from?
Stumped explores the language of Cricket