Why do americans call Table Tennis "ping pong"?

[Teddy1]

Why do americans call Table Tennis "ping pong"?

[MB1]

Maybe because they are Ting Tong....

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=ping-pong

Edited January 3, 2014 by MB1

[uptheos]

Because they first saw it at Patpong and maybe got the name wrong.

[MB1]

Because they first saw it at Patpong and maybe got the name wrong.

At least now it's Thai related...The topic I meant..

[Tywais]

Why are you blaming the Americans, should be blaming the Brits for starting it.

1901 - John Jacques register "Ping Pong" as a trade name in England. The American rights to the name are sold to Parker Brothers.

Brief history of table tennis/ping-pong

[cooked]

Oh, now that is a tricky one.

[jcgodber]

Duh! the sound the ball makes me thinks

[MB1]

Why are you blaming the Americans, should be blaming the Brits for starting it.

1901 - John Jacques register "Ping Pong" as a trade name in England. The American rights to the name are sold to Parker Brothers.

Brief history of table tennis/ping-pong

I'm blaming Jing Thing, Who want's a poll,,,,

[Jingthing]

We calls 'em like we hears 'em, youse guys got a probbem wit dat?

I actually grew up thinking that was the CHINESE name for the game.

[mopar71]

Why are you blaming the Americans, should be blaming the Brits for starting it.

It usually is.

[iluvbeaches]

Do you play tennis on a table? No. It makes a "ping pong" sound. Also from a non American.

[Gsxrnz]

For the same reason they call the world series, "The world Series". No logic whatsoever. Like, I mean....where's the rest of the world?

[Jingthing]

For the same reason they call the world series, "The world Series". No logic whatsoever. Like, I mean....where's the rest of the world?

It makes sense for baseball, the classical American sport. The only teams that could compete with USA teams are from Latin America and then send their best players to the "show" in the USA, so it may as well be the World Series.

[impulse]

Because we can't imagine a "table tennis" show at Soi Cowboy?

From Wikipedia: Early rackets were often pieces of parchment stretched upon a frame, and the sound generated in play gave the game its first nicknames of "wiff-waff" and "ping-pong". A number of sources indicate that the game was first brought to the attention of Hamley's of Regent Street under the name "Gossima".^[7][8] The name "ping-pong" was in wide use before British manufacturer J. Jaques & Son Ltd trademarked it in 1901. The name "ping-pong" then came to be used for the game played by the rather expensive Jaques's equipment, with other manufacturers calling it table tennis. A similar situation arose in the United States, where Jaques sold the rights to the "ping-pong" name to Parker Brothers. Parker Brothers then enforced their trademark for the term in the 1920s making the various associations change their names to "table tennis" instead of the more common, but trademarked, term.^[9]

^{So it wasn't the Americans. It was our European cousins.}

^{Just think- if not for a trademark back in 1901, we could be seeing the Wiff-Waff shows on Soi Cowboy.}

Edited January 10, 2014 by impulse

[wayned]

For the same reason they call the world series, "The world Series". No logic whatsoever. Like, I mean....where's the rest of the world?

The Brits call baseball "rounder" so you don't even play the game. Why should you be invited to a "World Series" of baseball! The south Americans and Japanese are represented on the US teams.

[JoeThePoster]

Because table tennis was too difficult for Forest Gump to spell on his China visa application.

[slipperylobster]

Because we can't imagine a "table tennis" show at Soi Cowboy?

From Wikipedia: Early rackets were often pieces of parchment stretched upon a frame, and the sound generated in play gave the game its first nicknames of "wiff-waff" and "ping-pong". A number of sources indicate that the game was first brought to the attention of Hamley's of Regent Street under the name "Gossima".^[7][8] The name "ping-pong" was in wide use before British manufacturer J. Jaques & Son Ltd trademarked it in 1901. The name "ping-pong" then came to be used for the game played by the rather expensive Jaques's equipment, with other manufacturers calling it table tennis. A similar situation arose in the United States, where Jaques sold the rights to the "ping-pong" name to Parker Brothers. Parker Brothers then enforced their trademark for the term in the 1920s making the various associations change their names to "table tennis" instead of the more common, but trademarked, term.^[9]

^{So it wasn't the Americans. It was our European cousins.}

^{Just think- if not for a trademark back in 1901, we could be seeing the Wiff-Waff shows on Soi Cowboy.}

One whiff of the ball would make one waffle..I suspect....

[slipperylobster]

...a point aside...what language to they speak in England? I do not have a clue as to what they are mumbling about.

[carmine]

why do they call football "soccer"?

[Nowhereman60]

why do they call soccer football?

[carmine]

why do they call soccer football?

The rest of the world were playing football before the likes of the aussies or americans started playing in the competitive arena my dear chap. it was never the americans sport to rename in the first place. Go figure.....

[slipperylobster]

why do they call soccer football?

The rest of the world were playing football before the likes of the aussies or americans started playing in the competitive arena my dear chap. it was never the americans sport to rename in the first place. Go figure.....

Those damn yankees, always changing the name of the game and then rewriting the rules.

[carmine]

why do they call soccer football?

The rest of the world were playing football before the likes of the aussies or americans started playing in the competitive arena my dear chap. it was never the americans sport to rename in the first place. Go figure.....

Those dam_n yankees, always changing the name of the game and then rewriting the rules.

Oh that looks good, lets americanize it

[7by7]

That's because if they play the same games by the same rules as everyone else they can't win.

So they have to invent their own games and then they can call themselves champions.

Although, like cricket and rounders, baseball probably developed from English village games, modern baseball is American with the rules etc. developed in America.

To be fair, it can be quite watchable; unlike American football.

A game with an official playing time of 60 minutes which takes over three hours to complete; because the players have to have a rest every time they're tackled.

Why can't they just get up and get on with it; like rugby league.

Edited January 11, 2014 by 7by7

[jimBaaaa]

Why do americans call Table Tennis "ping pong"?

Created by the English so has it's given name changed to make it appear as though the American created it? Saying that, they still use the correct names for golf, tennis, cricket, chess, rugby. They change the name of rounders to baseball, football to soccer and modified rugby, calling it American football. Let's not forget table tennis to ping pong.

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[jimBaaaa]

O and basketball is Canadian

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[timbus8]

I have played table tennis for many years & I think the more serious players call it table tennis, not ping pong! I can only speak for US citizens. I am not sure what it is called outside of the country.

[Jingthing]

I have played table tennis for many years & I think the more serious players call it table tennis, not ping pong! I can only speak for US citizens. I am not sure what it is called outside of the country.

Actually Americans call it both. It's not like soccer / football.

[Jasun]

It's an eponym. Like wiping your nose with a kleenex* while going up the escalator* with your zipper* down. They seem to be more popular in American culture.

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[lomatopo]

why do they call football "soccer"?

Believe that's a British thing too...from "Association Football", Assoc, Soccer. I think it was called Soccer early on, in England anyway.

Next up, Water Polo...where are the damn horses?