how do you spell "racket"

[Jeff]

Hah i was just bored and i realized one thing. Is it "racquet" or "racket"

On WWW.CARLTONSPORTS.COM they spell it racket

On WWW.YONEX.COM its spelled racquet

Is there a real way to spell it?

[cooler]

it should be racquet but i sometime use 'racket' to save typing one extra letter.

[Zclyh3]

It's more of an English thing. You know..checks vs. cheques, center vs. centre, theater vs. theatre...etc. It doesn't really matter, as long as we understand each other.

[BaMBaM]

Isn't it more like a French/English thing?

[Kelvin]

Actually I thought "racket"
As in "you're causing such a racket!!!"
???
could be wrong... any teachers in the house?? Don?

[May]

Racquet: British/Aussie(i think)
Racket: American.

[Byro-Nenium]

Isn't it the other way round?

[Don]

Main Entry: 1rack·et
Variant(s): also rac·quet /'ra-k&t/
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle French raquette, ultimately from Arabic rAhah palm of the hand
Date: circa 1520
1 : a lightweight implement that consists of a netting (as of nylon) stretched in a usually oval open frame with a handle attached and that is used for striking the ball or shuttlecock in various games (as tennis, racquets, or badminton)
2 usually racquets plural but singular in construction : a game for two or four players with ball and racket on a 4-walled court

[BaMBaM]

hey thats cheating, you had to look it up in a dictionary!!!

[Don]

Not really, it's called laziness. I'm a firm believer in the "racquet" spelling, maybe it's that I'm bilingual or something.

[May]

racket has 2 meanings. besides, Bambam, this isn't some sort of test.

[Byro-Nenium]

I have to agree that there are alot of things that can be argued like the subject of Math(s). Was it discovered or invented?

Just like "raquet" and "racket". I feel that its just 2 different ways of spelling the same thing. Its understood what the general word means and then again, does it really matter??

[BaMBaM]

I know its not a test but the original subject asks, how one spells "racket", Jeff could have easily looked that one up too.

[Don]

Geographically it does. I remembered back in elementary school when I use to spell the American way with respect to neighbour, favour, and a few others I can't think of off the top of my head. Anyhow, I was yelled at and scalded for spelling such ways, because I am a Canadian and I have to spell like a Canadian.

[Brett]

Don, do you pronounce words the English way also, adding funny and not too necessary extra sounds and syllables to words, like saying your Coke came in an "al-yew-min-ee-um" can (well, spelling is a bit different from the U.S. version) or pronouncing the name Berkley as "Bark-lee" or worcestershire sauce as "wuss-ter" sauce? When my family lived in England and I was about 15, an Englishman once attemped to correct my pronunciation of the word "SCHEDULE," pronouncing it "shed-yew-ul" instead of my version, "sked-jule." I then asked if his children went to "shule" and he looked at me blankly for a moment and then conceded I might have a point.

I'm sure there are some common American linguistic gaffs also.

[Byro-Nenium]

What i meant was does it really matter here at Badminton Central?

Seeing that the word "racket" here could only mean 1 possible obvious thing i was saying that it doesn't really matter how you spell it here

[Don]

I have that problem, the old "a-boot" is a good example. I didn't realize that I pronounce it that way until my friends kept pointing it out. Also Eastern Canada pronouciation is different from Western Canada. Such examples is the pronounciation of "Calgary". The "schedule" pronouciation always pisses me off for some reason with respect to "shed-ule" because I'm use to "sked-ule".

[Kelvin]

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[cooler]

kelvin, u should update us here on your trips like:
1. who did u played with during your vacation (i dont mean with your fiancée)?
2. any good badminton shops u had visited?
3. cities you have been to?
4. new badminton stuffs u might come across

[Cheung]

Went to Toronto and after a game went to the McDonalds. My cousin had to translate for me!!
When first working in HK, had to tone down my very English pronounciation because many HK chinese hadn;t a clue what I was on about!!!
Meeting some HK people who had emigrated to US, sometimes it was faster to communicate in Cantonese than in "English"!!!!

Very interesting