Origin of "badminton"
Is there an origin for "badminton", which caused it to be spelt thus?
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Yoong Liat Why is it "badminton" and not "batminton"? Why not "goodminton"? When I was little, we kids all pronounced it "bad mitten".
- Yoong Liat Why is it "badminton" and not "batminton"?
- Why not "goodminton"?
- When I was little, we kids all pronounced it "bad mitten".
- Yoong Liat It seems we play badminton with something which looks like a bat.
- I don't think a racket looks like a bat, but you do hit things with both.
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Yoong LiatWhy is it "badminton" and not "batminton"?
Why not "goodminton"? When I was little, we kids all pronounced it "bad mitten".
Yoong LiatIt seems we play badminton with something which looks like a bat.
I don't think a racket looks like a bat, but you do hit things with both.
Yoong Liat
0From an etymology dictionary:
badminton (n.) an outdoor game similar to lawn tennis but played with a shuttlecock, 1874, from Badminton House, name of Gloucestershire estate of the Duke of Beaufort, where the game first was played in England, mid-19c., having been picked up by British officers from Indian poona. The place name is Old English Badimyncgtun (972), "estate of (a man called)
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