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"win 3-2" read as "win three versus two"? Or "win three to two"?

 
 
Reply Thu 26 Jul, 2012 06:08 pm

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Japan stunned Spain with a 1-0 win and Brazil had to fend off a brave fightback from Egypt to win 3-2 at the Millennium Stadium. There's plenty more news to catch up on in our review of the day:
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Reply Thu 26 Jul, 2012 06:19 pm
three TO two. It's not a question of one score opposing the other (i.e. "versus"). It's simply what the scores were. And the team who scored 3 of whatever it was, won.
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Reply Thu 26 Jul, 2012 06:20 pm
Oh, probably soccer goals (or "football goals" if you're anywhere in the world but the US)
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Reply Fri 27 Jul, 2012 06:43 am
In Britain (the home of football) the scores are usually just said one after the other, highest first, with 0 said as 'nil'.

Thus "a 3-2 win" would be said aloud as "a three two win". You often hear groups of fans of a winning team exultantly chanting the score in the street after a match e.g. "two one!" "two one!" "two one!" "two one!". Sometimes before a match if they see fans of the opposing team they might offer sarcastic predictions of the likely score such as "ten nil!".

A score of 0-0 is a "nil nil draw" or a "no score draw".

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Reply Fri 27 Jul, 2012 06:52 am
@contrex,
contrex wrote:

In Britain (the home of football) the scores are usually just said one after the other, highest first, with 0 said as 'nil'.

Thus "a 3-2 win" would be said aloud as "a three two win". You often hear groups of fans of a winning team exultantly chanting the score in the street after a match e.g. "two one!" "two one!" "two one!" "two one!". Sometimes before a match if they see fans of the opposing team they might offer sarcastic predictions of the likely score such as "ten nil!".

A score of 0-0 is a "nil nil draw" or a "no score draw".




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