Phonetically correct sports

[Michael Quinion]

A subscriber e-mailed me as follows: "I was recently with some friends at
a trivia evening. One question was 'What is the only correct phonetically
spelled sport?' It turned out to be 'Golf'". Your follow-up question:
explain what's wrong phonetically with "rugby" and "cricket".


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Michael Quinion
Editor, World Wide Words
E-mail: wordseditor at worldwidewords.org
Web: http://www.worldwidewords.org

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