As an Englishman who still likes his "Yorkshire tea and proper Sunday roast," I don't care what anybody calls the game or the the green stuff it's played on (I do care if it's not the real green stuff) as long as they keep playing it or watching it or both.
Wonderfully done, Steve. As someone relatively new to the sport, I am still learning the linguistic nuances. This nails it down for me. No more use of pitch in my game summaries!
I even pitched a magazine story years ago "In honor of your local bar." In the pitch, I know I called it my "local." ... I'm sure about what you say, "local pub" and all, but I've called my local my local for 20 years. Never had a thought that it was a British-ism.
As an Englishman who still likes his "Yorkshire tea and proper Sunday roast," I don't care what anybody calls the game or the the green stuff it's played on (I do care if it's not the real green stuff) as long as they keep playing it or watching it or both.
Dammit I love this so much
for those interested here is a link to Szymanski's article
https://dl.icdst.org/pdfs/files/0e111edb9045910f072b3e163bff681c.pdf
Wonderfully done, Steve. As someone relatively new to the sport, I am still learning the linguistic nuances. This nails it down for me. No more use of pitch in my game summaries!
When you say "at my local" using "local" as a noun, I just may have to call hypocrisy here!
Hmmm. Is that some British-ism? (Serious question) I've only heard that from folks here
Very much so"
The Local
"Natives will often refer to a particular pub as “my local”. This is not necessarily the pub nearest to their home, but rather their favourite among a
choice of pubs within their community" Source: Passport to the Pub /
The Tourist’s Guide to Pub Etiquette
Man, that's news to me.
I even pitched a magazine story years ago "In honor of your local bar." In the pitch, I know I called it my "local." ... I'm sure about what you say, "local pub" and all, but I've called my local my local for 20 years. Never had a thought that it was a British-ism.