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As the title says, what do you call it? Do you correct others? I myself will call it either, and don't care what others call it.

I though it would be interesting to see the numbers on this...

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Ping Pong is a different game really whereby two people prod the ball back and forth without aggression. Ping Pong is actually a registered trademark for Parker Bros. games I believe.

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Depends on where I am. In the U.S. I always say table tennis. When in China, it is Ping Pong. If you say table tennis in China, you usually get a blank stare.

Well Reb, some of the guys at my club call it ping pong, and they don't just prod it back and forth! But I know what you mean. People who call it pingpong tend to be basement players. on the whole.

I have heard that hookshot, but I was never sure if it was true. I know you've been there, so now I have some evidence. Do they pronounce it "ping pong" still?

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Table tennis. Our league is called Preston Table Tennis Association, and the ETTA is the English Table Tennis Association. Makes sense to call it what the league and national association call it. I'm not so naive as to believe that that's what it should be called exclusively though and recognise that other parts of the world / other people call it ping pong and that's fine. What bothers me is how many play the sport and getting more to play it unless it's the name that's putting them off playing

Reborn is right: the term Ping Pong was coined by the game's manufacturer, Parker Bros. at the turn of the century - 1927, I think.

Ping Pong is a game
Table Tennis is a sport

If you call it Ping Pong, then you treat this great activity as an idle game. If you call it Table Tennis, then you treat this great activity as a serious sport.

As you can deduce from my response, I don't like the term, Ping Pong, unless I'm watching giggling drunks around a BBQ pushing a ball between themselves!

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Ping pong is the official name in Chinese for "table tennis". Always has been, and always will. To call table tennis ping pong should not be a derogatory practice, regardless of how many still insist on making it so.

Take any major table tennis association in the Western world formed by Asians, for example, the Canadian Chinese Table Tennis Association on Mytt.net site... The Chinese name for this association in the same ad is "Canadian Chinese Ping Pong Association". The same with our Los Angeles Table Tennis Association (http://www.latabletennis.com), the official name in Chinese for our organization is "Los Angeles Ping Pong Association", right underneath our name in English. The same with everyone of the hundreds of Asian American founded table tennis clubs in America.

Roundrobin, you do accept that a games manufacturer made up that term, don't you? That's really the only distinction I'm making and it just feels a bit cheap to me to call this sport, Ping Pong. But, hey, I do believe in evolution and the right of the Chinese to evolve the term for the better - if that makes any sense.

Maybe I'm just a stick in the mud!

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Let me stand corrected, it was actually (according to Wikipedia) a term first coined by British manufacturers, J. Jacques & Sons in 1901. Well, in fact, Ping Pong was a term that existed well before that, along with the term , Wiff-Waff, when the 'game' was a gentleman's activity in smoking parlours. Anyway, it was the British manufacturer who sold the term to Parker Bros. in the US. [see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_tennis]

I wonder why Wiff-waff never took off?

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That's what I call it, but all I get is these blank stares.

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We need to promote the sport. I call it both ways to reach out for others but when talking to serious players, I used the term Table tennis. Sometimes we call table tennis players as "pongers". In our place, ping pong is much popular byword but for serious competition, table tennis is always and will always be the term we used.

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Maybe cos it sounds like what happens when someone breaks wind!

Der tends to play this game when he changes end by all accounts!

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I was going to point this out actually. It was one of the original nicknames used before it was trademarked, actually: (From wikipedia) The name "ping-pong" was in wide use before British manufacturer J. Jaques & Son Ltd trademarked it in 1901.

This is supported in other online articles as well, such as: http://iml.jou.ufl.edu/projects/fall04/ ... story.html

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table tennis, ping pong, whatever. I take the game seriously, i'll call it whatever I need to so that the people i'm talking to understand me

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