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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 Jigger
Simon 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

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