Talk:Racquets (sport)

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[edit] A note on my 2006 Feb 01 edits

I reinserted a statement about rackets being a male-dominated sport. I think the statement is non-POV and fairly relevant (as would a similar statement about American football, or the outdoor heptathlon being a mostly female sport). Personally, I don't particularly care if women want to/do play the sport or not -- I just want an informative encyclopedia entry. My source for the info is a 1978 book by Dick Squires. Because it is several years old, I also searched both the American and UK websites, and could find no picture or mention of women playing the game today. If someone has info otherwise, please feel free to revise the entry.

I concede that as a mainly British game, "rackets" is probably the most common spelling. However, it occurred to me that the word "racquet" referring to the sporting equipment is probably a little more common than (or at least nearly as common as) the commonwealth spelling. My thought was that using the "k" to refer to the game, and "qu" to refer to the equipment, may make the article just a little easier to read -- so I made some spelling changes.

— Eoghanacht ^talk 18:08, 1 February 2006 (UTC)