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Table tennis is the name of the sport. Ping-pong is a brand of table tennis equipment.
by Tangurena2 4y ago
Table tennis is the name of the sport. Ping-pong is a brand of table tennis equipment.
- mike_hearn 4y agoHuh really. This is like with Hoover then, where the term became generic? I only ever heard ping-pong used as the name of the sport. Another thing that confused me and lots of other British children: why do so many American program brand names begin with the apparently meaningless letters EZ? Eee-zed doesn't mean anything!
- jotm 4y agoHoover (vacuum), Xerox (copy), Flex (angle grinder), the bright yellow post it note (3m trademark), pretty funny stuff
- stragies 4y ago'EZ' is meant to be read as 'Easy', I think.
- mike_hearn 4y agoYep. It's embarrassing how long it took a teenage me to figure that one out, though.
- Tangurena2 4y agoI believe the confusion is over the letter Z. Commonwealth countries would pronounce that "zed" while in America that letter is pronounced "zee" (rhyming with letters like B, C, D, etc.). EZ would be pronounced "easy".