I heard a Radio 4 programme about the history of sport which pointed out that "olympic" and other derived words were once used by anyone in any context:
like the Liverpool Olympic Festivals of the 1860s, the Morpeth Olympic Games that ran from the 1880s until 1958, and the Wenlock Olympian Games, as well as circus and music hall acts. My favourite, from 1815, is My Gyngell’s travelling variety show, which featured ‘Hydraulicks, Hydrostatics, Deceptions, Musical Glasses, Sagacious Birds, Astonishing Dogs, Olympic Exercises, and the Equilibrium Wire’.
from Martin Polley.
Part of me wishes the Morpeth games had taken out a monopoly on the O name and then what would the Olympic Games call themselves?
Wasn't Olympic the sister ship to Titanic?
Olympic, Olympic, Olympic, Olympic, Olympic, Olympic, Olympic, Olympic, Olympic, Olympic, Olympic, Olympic, Olympic, Olympic, Olympic, Olympic, Olympic, Olympic, Olympic, Olympic, Olympic, Olympic, Olympic, Olympic, Olympic, Olympic, Olympic, Olympic, Olympic, Olympic, Olympic, Olympic, Olympic, Olympic, Olympic, Olympic, Olympic, Olympic, Olympic, Olympic! Blah! Bite me! :mysmilie_849:
Jude xx