Add me on Facebook www.facebook.com My website hotforwords.com Twitter twitter.com Hello my dear students! Your favorite teacher is back with another round of Olympic trivia. Ready? Tell me, which of the following was an official event in past Olympic games: fire-fighting, poodle clipping, tug-of-war, or delivery van driving? [Pause] Believe it or not, they all used to be Olympic events! Well, poodle clipping—where contestants tried to trim the most poodles' fur in a two-hour period—was only a trial event, but it had 6000 fans at the Paris Games in 1900! So, while we're on the topic of fake-sounding events that really exist, do you know what Olympic sport uses The Uber Cup as one of its qualifying events? The answer is badminton, a funny-sounding word in its own right. Where did the name and the sport come from? Hot for Words is here to investigate. The word "Badminton" has been associated with the sport since 1874. The game was named for the Badminton House, which was an estate in Gloucestershire, England. "Badminton" comes from the Old English word "Badimyncgtun," which means "estate of a man called Baduhelm." Many believe that English officers invented the sport while stationed in India during the mid 18th century, then brought it to England and the Badminton house in the mid 19th century. It was based on the English game of battledore and shuttlecock, where two people use rackets to pass the shuttlecock (also called a "bird" or "birdie") back and forth as many times ...
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Badminton. Where did the name and the sport come from?
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Add me on Facebook www.facebook.com My website hotforwords.com Twitter twitter.com Hello my dear students! Your favorite teacher is back with another round of Olympic trivia. Ready? Tell me, which of the following was an official event in past Olympic games: fire-fighting, poodle clipping, tug-of-war, or delivery van driving? [Pause] Believe it or not, they all used to be Olympic events! Well, poodle clipping—where contestants tried to trim the most poodles' fur in a two-hour period—was only a trial event, but it had 6000 fans at the Paris Games in 1900! So, while we're on the topic of fake-sounding events that really exist, do you know what Olympic sport uses The Uber Cup as one of its qualifying events? The answer is badminton, a funny-sounding word in its own right. Where did the name and the sport come from? Hot for Words is here to investigate. The word "Badminton" has been associated with the sport since 1874. The game was named for the Badminton House, which was an estate in Gloucestershire, England. "Badminton" comes from the Old English word "Badimyncgtun," which means "estate of a man called Baduhelm." Many believe that English officers invented the sport while stationed in India during the mid 18th century, then brought it to England and the Badminton house in the mid 19th century. It was based on the English game of battledore and shuttlecock, where two people use rackets to pass the shuttlecock (also called a "bird" or "birdie") back and forth as many times ...
Add me on Facebook www.facebook.com My website hotforwords.com Twitter twitter.com Hello my dear students! Your favorite teacher is back with another round of Olympic trivia. Ready? Tell me, which of the following was an official event in past Olympic games: fire-fighting, poodle clipping, tug-of-war, or delivery van driving? [Pause] Believe it or not, they all used to be Olympic events! Well, poodle clipping—where contestants tried to trim the most poodles' fur in a two-hour period—was only a trial event, but it had 6000 fans at the Paris Games in 1900! So, while we're on the topic of fake-sounding events that really exist, do you know what Olympic sport uses The Uber Cup as one of its qualifying events? The answer is badminton, a funny-sounding word in its own right. Where did the name and the sport come from? Hot for Words is here to investigate. The word "Badminton" has been associated with the sport since 1874. The game was named for the Badminton House, which was an estate in Gloucestershire, England. "Badminton" comes from the Old English word "Badimyncgtun," which means "estate of a man called Baduhelm." Many believe that English officers invented the sport while stationed in India during the mid 18th century, then brought it to England and the Badminton house in the mid 19th century. It was based on the English game of battledore and shuttlecock, where two people use rackets to pass the shuttlecock (also called a "bird" or "birdie") back and forth as many times ...
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