Card sharp versus card shark

[Laurence Horn]

At 6:07 AM -0800 2/25/03, James Smith wrote:
>--- Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:
>
>...  No teams named "the Whites" or "the
>>  Blacks" as far as I
>>  know.  ...
>>
>>  larry
>
>The "All Blacks" of New Zealand, but that isn't
>American dialect.
>
Indeed, and I remember being extremely confused when I first heard
their name (back in the era of enforced apartheid in South Africa).

L