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PostPosted: 16 Jan 2018, 04:10 
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I use "Blade" without the rubbers.

I use ....Both "Bat" and "Paddle."

I probably say "paddle" to people I don't know to avoid confusion. Sometimes people don't know what I mean by "Bat." I probably use bat more often to people I know well.

"Racket" seems least appropriate because to me like a racket should have strings like a tennis, squash, or badminton racket. To me, "Paddles" are mostly solid striking surface with no strings. You would never spank a child (back in the olden days) with a racket. You would never use a racket to propel your boat.

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In the US, paddle is more common to disambiguate from a Baseball Bat. In fact, in American sports, a baseball bat is the only kind of sport-associated bat there is really.

If you say "bat", 100% of every American born here will picture this:

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Or this:

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But never a TT Bat.

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My UK experience is always "bat" for the full setup and blade when no rubbers attached

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And we invented the game. So: definitive. ;)

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... So when I arrived at the pier, I put down my paddle, picked up my blade and without raising a racket entered into the fray not batting an eyelid, although my knees felt rubbery ...

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Japsican wrote:
In the US, paddle is more common to disambiguate from a Baseball Bat. In fact, in American sports, a baseball bat is the only kind of sport-associated bat there is really.

If you say "bat", 100% of every American born here will picture this:

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But never a TT Bat.


hmm...yet in Australia, these bats are common:

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And this is a racquet:

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As opposed to a racket:

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haggisv wrote:
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Table tennis shops in Britain usually use "blade".

Really? :o So what do they call a bat without rubbers?


Ah sorry, I took your question to be referring to bat's without rubbers. If you mean the full setup, it's usually bat.


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darucla wrote:
so_devo wrote:
My UK experience is always "bat" for the full setup and blade when no rubbers attached

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And we invented the game. So: definitive. ;)

You also called it "Wiff Waff" back then. This disqualifies you from anything "definitive." Haha :D

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hmm...yet in Australia, these bats are common:

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In my head, probably due to my American cultural bias, a bat is more club-like than it is flat. Even a cricket bat is more club-like than paddle-like. Still, I like the term "bat" more than "paddle." I just know it causes confusion if I use that term.

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In my head, probably due to my American cultural bias, a bat is more club-like than it is flat. Even a cricket bat is more club-like than paddle-like. Still, I like the term "bat" more than "paddle." I just know it causes confusion if I use that term.

A paddle belongs in the water propelling a boat or canoe of some description.

How did paddle ever get to be linked with table tennis?


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Debater wrote:
Table tennis shops in Britain usually use "blade".


I run into this issue when people call their car wheels "rims." Wheels and rims are not the same thing.


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rsilvers wrote:
Debater wrote:
Table tennis shops in Britain usually use "blade".


I run into this issue when people call their car wheels "rims." Wheels and rims are not the same thing.


I run into this issue when sportscasters says a players has wheels. Wheels and legs are not the same thing.

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We call it blade without rubbers, bat or paddle or racket with rubbers, racquet or stringed racket for badminton / tennis / squash.

It really really irks me when people talk about Gears for a rubber when only motored equipment come with Low, mid, High and reverse gearing!!!

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Japsican wrote:
darucla wrote:
so_devo wrote:
My UK experience is always "bat" for the full setup and blade when no rubbers attached

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And we invented the game. So: definitive. ;)

You also called it "Wiff Waff" back then. This disqualifies you from anything "definitive." Haha :D

"What's in a name?" As the Earl of Oxford once wrote. :geek:

Prior to becoming an official game, it may have been called many things. Only Boris (the $%^&) Johnson still uses Whiff-Whaff. And he will be the first against the wall after the revolution.

But this is OT. I like those who use the words "floor" and "covering", or is that just Google Translate? I hope not.

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Table Tennis is considered a racket (Racquet) sport, and is the number one played racket sport in the world.

Thus logic states that it must be called a racket ;)!

Bat, Racket, Paddle, call it what ever the hell you want, just don't call it late for supper!

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Debater wrote:
Japsican wrote:
In my head, probably due to my American cultural bias, a bat is more club-like than it is flat. Even a cricket bat is more club-like than paddle-like. Still, I like the term "bat" more than "paddle." I just know it causes confusion if I use that term.

A paddle belongs in the water propelling a boat or canoe of some description.

How did paddle ever get to be linked with table tennis?


I'm quite sure I could paddle my canoe with one of my "paddles".. Just need to wait for the ice to melt and we'll give this theory a try!

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