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[csbvan]

Soccer-baseball? You sick freaks!

[lio45]

Originally Posted by csbvan

Soccer-baseball? You sick freaks!

Growing up, it was universally called kickball by all of us in my francophone area of Quebec.

(Anecdotal bit, in my head it was spelled Quickball - only much later as an adult with some notions of English did I realize in retrospect what "kick" meant and that it made total sense as a name.)

[Acajack]

Originally Posted by lio45

Growing up, it was universally called kickball by all of us in my francophone area of Quebec.

(Anecdotal bit, in my head it was spelled Quickball - only much later as an adult with some notions of English did I realize in retrospect what "kick" meant and that it made total sense as a name.)

I admit that kickball / soccer-baseball made me scratch my head.

I mean, I knew exactly what it was but I wondered (as I always do when I heard a term like that in English) how I'd say that in French.

Then it dawned upon me that I'd only played soccer-baseball (that's what they called it) in the English schools I went to.

In my years of schooling in French we never happened to play that sport.

I'll have to ask my kids tonight if they've ever played it and what they call it.

I bet that if they know it it's called kickball.

[Laceoflight]

Originally Posted by Acajack

I bet that if they know it it's called kickball.

We used to play it every spring and fall, outside, at elementary school (en éducation physique). We always called it kickball.

[lio45]

Originally Posted by Laceoflight

We used to play it every spring and fall, outside, at elementary school (en éducation physique). We always called it kickball.

Yes, I've never ever even suspected there could be people out there who'd have another name for it. Most sports by far only have one: baseball, hockey, basketball, tennis...

Quebec would be deep red in the kickball map, had they done their study correctly. (I don't doubt that Montreal Anglos call that sport whatever Ontarians call it.)

[Acajack]

Originally Posted by lio45

Yes, I've never ever even suspected there could be people out there who'd have another name for it. Most sports by far only have one: baseball, hockey, basketball, tennis...

Quebec would be deep red in the kickball map, had they done their study correctly. (I don't doubt that Montreal Anglos call that sport whatever Ontarians call it.)

My kids and their friends confirm it's kickball for them.