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Some may consider this sheer perversity; however, I have a feeling that the fault lies with those two well-meaning gentlemen from Scarsdale, who, in labeling their unique game, neglected to suggest that it combines the skills of squash and tennis.
To begin with let us list some of the official racquet games, both ancient and modern, that may be defined in a standard dictionary or encyclopedia of sport: tennis; lawn tennis; squash tennis; paddle tennis; platform tennis; table tennis; paddleball; racquetball; squash racquets; badminton; and racquets . The most obvious characteristic of this list is that most of these games appear, at least, to be variations of the game of tennis , yet in reality they cannot be technically classified as such.
Any way you slice it, the Earl of Sandwich was responsible, but only two of the three examples fit the Slurvian rule of swallow and squash.
The editorial cheers Jesse Helms' attack on William Weld's nomination, then urges Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott to "squash [Weld] like a bug."
Badminton derives from the name of the estate in Gloucestershire where the game was first played in England; tennis stems from tenetz , an old form of tenez , from French tenir `to hold'; and squash , according to scholars, probably grew out of the “squashy” sound which the original soft ball made against the wall of the court.