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Message: [QUOTE="veivoli, post: 5300313, member: 14073"] If I may be permitted, allow me to temporarily swerve this thread towards basketball. Shock! Horror! Think of the children... Can anyone explain why commentators have dropped the "up" from "lay-up"? We now have players making or, too frequently, missing "lays". The second is the disappearance of the set shot, where a player shoots with their feet on the floor. It seems that they are all called jump shots, even if the height of the jump is zero. To see a true jump shot look no further than Paige who jumps high and releases the ball above head height. Stewie also has a great, real, jump shot that is almost unguardable for mere humans. I know the language evolves, but these have me scratching my head! [/QUOTE]