Further to the Korbut Function

[desperance]

You guys: you are amazing. Virtual cookies and/or biscuits for all. You are not only prompt, you are unanimous; the internets agree with each other. Uneven bars or uneven parallel bars is American usage and always has been; asymmetric bars is British.

At least, it was British. Until now. And I would very much like to know who decided to change it. On the BBC, damn it! I love variations in usage, transatlantic or otherwise; I hate creeping homogenisation.

Bah, humbug. To the barricades! Who's with me?

Comments

[pogodragon.livejournal.com]

I'm with you (I remember Olga Korbut, I went to see the Russian Gymnastic team do an exhibition event in London sometime in the 1970s - though she was 'ill' and didn't perform)

I did notice the change from 'asymmetric' to 'uneven' a few years ago, on the BBC. *Drags furniture to end of street*