Category talk:Sport

Name not universal

While I understand how this category is organized — Category:Sport as the parent of Category:Sports — it's not very intuitive for North American speakers of English. In NA, "sport" is merely the singular of "sports", so these appear to be the same category. Where Commonwealth nations (outside of Canada and The Bahamas) have a "Sport" page, North Americans generally have a "Sports" page. "Sports" is used to both define a whole realm of knowledge and to categorize the individual kinds of sporting competition. If your only real interface with British culture is Doctor Who and the occasional episode of Masterpiece Theatre on PBS, you're gonna scratch your head and wonder what's the difference between Category:Sport and Category:Sports. I can appreciate that DW is a British show, and to some extent British English should predominate, but this is one case where being stubborn about that can actually lead to misunderstanding. In the spirit of making the site friendly to a worldwide audience, is there a name this category could have which would be acceptable to both British and North American speakers? Perhaps, Category:Things having to do with sport (still not quite "true" to the North American ear, but clear enough) or Category:Sport and athletic competition (not entirely perfect, because the British use the term "athletic" to mean "track and field"). But it's a good compromise because it uses one term in the Commonwealth sense and one in the North American (outside of Jamaica). Plus, it allows us to sneak in things like martial arts, which aren't really sports, and it allows for easy alphabetization. CzechOut ☎ | ✍ 13:51, March 12, 2010 (UTC)