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Christine Christie Posted 6 years ago
Grammar

Lettered

Consider the following sentence:


"I’d LETTERED in football in high school and college and loved just about every other sport there was."


In this context, what does 'lettered' mean?


And is a commonly used word?

  

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" In this context, what does 'lettered' mean? And is a commonly used word? In the US, in high school and college American football, the best players win a "letter", that is a fancy jacket with the letter of the name of the team or school.

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  • " In this context, what does 'lettered' mean?
  • And is a commonly used word?
  • In the US, in high school and college American football, the best players win a "letter", that is a fancy jacket with the letter of the name of the team or school.
  • They can win more letters on their jacket.
  • " And usually that makes them very popular with the girls.
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Christine Christie

Consider the following sentence:


"I’d LETTERED in football in high school and college and loved just about every other sport there was."


In this context, what does 'lettered' mean?


And is a commonly used word?

In the US, in high school and college Americ

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I should add that this is not an expression that is known in the UK. If you use it, do not expect an audience from outside the US to know what it means.

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