Giving Boringly Named Sports Better Names

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Sports Etymologies From Etymonline: www.etymonline.com/
Basketball: springfield.edu/where-basketb...
Netball: netball.sport/game/history-of...
Volleyball: www.volleyhall.org/history-of...
Handball: www.britannica.com/sports/han...
Iacio: en.wiktionary.org/wiki/iacio
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Ulu Maika: www.topendsports.com/sport/ex...
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Gridiron: biggameusa.com/blog/what-does...
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@NameExplain

Can you think of a better name for a sport like I did?

@Aboz

Remember, Hawaiian pronounces every letter, so poe poe is pronounced po-e po-e. Po po is slang for police.

@WKogut

"Hoops" for Basketball and "Calcio" for Football

@ashleymessedup

Over time, knupple would end up with a silent K as english speakers would apply their understanding of other kn words.

@bonecanoe86

If world leaders decided on "Gridiron" and "Soccer" as a compromise to end the confusion forever, that would be a Nobel Prize winning moment.

@rubenlarochelle1881

An interesting thing about Poker and Snooker is that their namesakes refer to

@sneedler4661

Every polish uncle in the Midwest would riot if we changed bowling to Luther

@Kazarijyanainoyonamidawa

The dutch name for the animal "bat" is vleermuis or "winged mouse"

@Pangloss6413

Make boring words cool! New winning formula!

@beaniebear1122

This is a cool idea! I would love to see you do more videos where create new names for preexisting things.

@anonEDM

Handegg is the name we deserve

@rubenlarochelle1881

Regarding Volleyball being renamed Volley, in Italian Volleyball has two names: the main one is Pallavolo (roughly "flying ball") and the less used one is Volley (admittedly a shortening of the English name).

@Unzepe

Knüppel in Dutch is without the umlaut, just knuppel.

@FormulaJRay

I remember years ago there was a thing that started on Reddit I think where they were trying to come up with new names for thing in the same style as whoever the guy was that came with the name "Walkie Talkie" for two-way radios. I remember some examples were for missiles, zoomie boomies. For forks, stabbie grabbies.

@CAMacKenzie

Baseball is said to be derived from the English game, played since the Tudor times, called rounders, so named for the manner of scoring points. What, in modern baseball is called a run, was called a rounder, or at least, that's what I've read. Why not just revert to that name?

@Kahtilik

"we can't go over every kind of football" man there's only 4 or so, that is only 2 more then you talked about

@kailomonkey

Great name choices and concise explanation of current sports names. It would have been nice to see that 3 column table filled in for every sport we're renaming to show your optinos before you made the choice, but the choices you made were good and informative!

@PaulPaulPaulson

I already love "Knüppel" and I haven't even started the video 😁

@mildredthegoat8340

I'd like to put forward a fun alternitive idea for the origin the name of Polo: It's named after the mint sweets they gave the horses at the end of the game! Yes, I know it can't be, as Polo mints aren't as old as the game (also sweets are probably not that good for horses), but it's just a fun idea that came to mind!

@Olafje

The Dutch word for "bat" is "knuppel", not "knüppel"! ("Bat" as in the animal is "vleermuis", meaning something like "mouse with wings", which is awesome). "Knüppel" is German I think, or it looks that way anyway, since the ü is only used in very specific circumstances in Dutch (like in "geüpload" (uploaded), which I imagine looking hilarious to native English speakers), while in German, ü is a vowel like any other.