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Because, here in the US, it clearly has little to do with "sport" anymore...
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When does it 'become time' to change the word *we use to describe something (quite evident) with a new, appropriate, more accrurate and functionally descriptive term?
Is it only a matter of how many and how often people use it, as the OED may suggest?
...Or would it "cheapen" the whole *thing to change the words now? <evil-grin>
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When are we gonna stop calling it "The World Series"?
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In reply to:
When are we gonna stop calling it "The World Series"?
When they stop playing it. Or them.
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Probably at the same time as they stop calling it the Miss Universe pageant.
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change the word *we use to describe something (quite evident) with a new, appropriate, more accrurate and functionally descriptive term
Or either that or change the definition of the first word to match the change in the referrent.
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