[Ads-l] Fw: Definition of "Rookie" (Sports)

[Bill Mullins]

When I was looking, I wasn't aware it was proprietary (the game is regionally popular in middle Tennessee where I grew up, and was common in my youth).  After I found that it was, I wondered about the OED's acceptance of proprietary game names as well, but I see that they have entries for proprietary games Monopoly, Trivial Pursuit, Othello, and (no doubt) others.

So I'd imagine it's a judgment call on the part of the OED editors.


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To what extent would the willingness of the OED to list "Rook" be affected by the consideration that Rook is (or at least was, I haven't checked to see if there has been a change) the proprietary product of Parker Brothers (now part of Hasbro)?


John Baker



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[snip]

(And while I was in that section of the OED, I noticed that it does not have an entry

for the card game "Rook" [name taken from the bird].

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rook_(card_game)<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rook_(card_game)> )




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