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Geoyo Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary
Next matches
On a website offering live scores of sporting events I saw a button captioned "next matches". Shouldn't it be "next games"? I know that AmE speakers refer to a sporting event as "game", my English teacher is American and he once corrected me when I said "match". How do British speakers think about it?
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What is the sport? In the UK, "next matches" and "next games" are both correct for football (and various other team sports).
- What is the sport?
- In the UK, "next matches" and "next games" are both correct for football (and various other team sports).
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What is the sport? In the UK, "next matches" and "next games" are both correct for football (and various other team sports).
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It refers to all sports including football, basketball, tennis and so on. What about tennis? It's not a team sport, is that a different case? And what about American English, is "match" allowed at all in this context?
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I would use "match" for tennis. "game" has a special meaning in that sport, being a subdivision of a match (though in practice there is not likely to be confusion in your context).
I couldn't comment on AmE usage; hopefully an American forum member will come along in due course.
I couldn't comment on AmE usage; hopefully an American forum member will come along in due course.
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Oh, I see. Yes, I hope some AmE speaker will help. I already asked a similar question here, and I think an American answered and said he would exclusively call sporting events "games", but I wonder if that's also true for this certain context. GPY, let's say it was your website, how would you, as a British, label the button?
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