Letter: Name of the game
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Sir: Following Philip Patience's letter (20 August), let us agree that the game of ping pong should not be called "table tennis". But surely it would be more onomatopoeic if the spelling were reversed and it were called "gnip-gnop".
HOWARD TEMPERLEY
Norwich
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