Talk:Rules of cribbage
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[edit] "his nob" vs. "his nobs"
There have been a couple of edits changing "one for his nob" to "one for his nobs". I'm going to outline the reasons here why I will be changing them back:
- likely derivation: "one for his nob" refers to a physical attribute of the Jack (his head) and the number of them (one) directly mirroring "two for his heels"
- appeal to authority: the following authorities cite "one for his nob":
- Hoyle, Edmond Hoyle; Lawrence H. Dawson (1994). "Cribbage", The Complete Hoyle's Games. Wordsworth Editions, 106. ISBN 1-85326-316-8. “Where either includes a knave of the same suit as the start, one "for his nob" will be scored in addition.”
- Farmer, John S; W E Henley (1921). A Dictionary of Slang and Colloquial English. George Routledge and Sons, 309. “One for his nob, (1) a blow on the head; (2) a point in cribbage for holding the knave of trumps: cf. Two for his heels.”
- weight of usage: Google lists about ten times as many pages matching "one for his nob" as "one for his nobs"
I'll leave one reference to the alternative usage. TimR (talk) 06:59, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
