Why Do We Call Pool Pool and not Billiards?
Mar 1, 2017 08:32:00 #
Take a guess. I guessed wrong.
https://www.howtogeek.com/trivia/in-america-the-game-of-billiards-is-called-pool-as-a-result-of/
https://www.howtogeek.com/trivia/in-america-the-game-of-billiards-is-called-pool-as-a-result-of/
Mar 1, 2017 16:34:11 #
In the UK we have both!...Large Billiards tables (Snooker) and small 'American Pool' tables with numbered balls. If you want to get even more obscure we even have Bar Billiards - which is on a table the size of a pinball machine. Holes with wooden mushrooms in front. Idea is to get canon shots down the hole without knocking the mushroom over.
Mar 1, 2017 16:38:49 #
Why do americans say N eye kon and the Brits say Nick on
Mar 1, 2017 16:57:40 #
boberic wrote:
Why do americans say N eye kon and the Brits say Nick on
Because a vowel is pronounced long when it's followed by a single consonant. When the following consonant is doubled, the vowel is short. "Stripe" and "stripper," "diner" and "dinner," "super" and "supper."
Mar 1, 2017 17:19:44 #
G Brown wrote:
In the UK we have both!...Large Billiards tables (Snooker) and small 'American Pool' tables with numbered balls. If you want to get even more obscure we even have Bar Billiards - which is on a table the size of a pinball machine. Holes with wooden mushrooms in front. Idea is to get canon shots down the hole without knocking the mushroom over.
Then of course there is "Pocket Billiards"..lol.
Mar 2, 2017 06:54:53 #
hj
Loc: Florida
'cause you don't want to lose your place at the table so you skip going to the restroom?
Mar 2, 2017 09:59:34 #
Mar 2, 2017 12:05:53 #
johneccles wrote:
Trust you to lower the tone of the conversation !!
'es probably cockney or perhaps Scottish. May be kin to Lonnie Donegan. LOL!
"Oh, my old man's a dustman
He wears a dustman's hat
He wears cor blimey trousers
And he lives in a council flat
He looks a proper narner
In his great big hob nailed boots
He's got such a job to pull 'em up
That he calls them daisy roots"
Mar 2, 2017 12:23:07 #
Another one: We bake cookies, but we cook bacon.
That too is pretty weird.
That too is pretty weird.
Mar 2, 2017 16:18:13 #
Mar 2, 2017 17:25:36 #
Mar 3, 2017 00:50:12 #
The game, Billiards, as I know it, is played on a table without pockets, and with three balls: one is red, one is white, and one is white with a black dot. The object of the game is to strike the other two balls with one shot of your object ball (either of the white balls as chosen at the start of the game). The good shooters play Three Cushion Billiards-- in which the object ball must strike three cushions between the shot and the second hit. In the movie "The Hustler", the game is briefly shown in the scene where Eddie Felson takes on a rich guy following the Kentucky Derby.
The game most familiar to us as Pool is Pocket Billiards. Snooker is on a much larger table with smaller pockets and balls, and that's all I know about it.
The game most familiar to us as Pool is Pocket Billiards. Snooker is on a much larger table with smaller pockets and balls, and that's all I know about it.
Mar 3, 2017 01:00:04 #
Mark Sturtevant wrote:
Another one: We bake cookies, but we cook bacon.
That too is pretty weird.
That too is pretty weird.
Baking is done in an oven with heat all around the item. Show me a cookie that was cooked on top of a stove?
Cooking is done by heating the item on one side. Whether cooking over an open fire or in a pan on top of the stove.
You can also bake bacon by heating it in an oven. Some say it is the best way to serve bacon.
Mar 3, 2017 12:38:28 #
rfmaude41
Loc: Lancaster, Texas (DFW area)
boberic wrote:
Why do americans say N eye kon and the Brits say Nick on
The true pronunciation is Knee-Con....
Mar 4, 2017 19:20:36 #
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