{"id":22174,"date":"2022-05-20T16:09:15","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T16:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=22174"},"modified":"2022-05-20T16:09:16","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T16:09:16","slug":"babyfoot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=22174","title":{"rendered":"Babyfoot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently the game pictured below is known as <strong>babyfoot<\/strong> in French. Which is kind of cute.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/artembali\/48942647043\/in\/photolist-2hyTRQ8-uKt7Ws-x4sz5q-u5Rs8D-d8ZGiC-a5ZTjQ-2nT2pr-cC4Pjo-3q4mJk-2kt9EwM-2W9K2-vK2uv-6aBa41-2izBwo3-7oiDmv-7sFtBp-W51akY-6p2Bit-2nT2sn-u5rh1y-VqL3aZ-bE3jJA-xU9J4-2iwqhFL-j5nfHF-5AVbST-3q8UL5-fsLrDZ-53H3Z7-2nT2QZ-bE3k3E-2nT2Ux-5HnJPo-2nT3ck-2nXqVj-2izCH1V-2C3oJ3-2nXqzA-6SZmxM-EhAnLt-2jahGQF-n6fxax-eAEQoD-KJpUTz-dMgmzP-wrHXX-5GvXn1-ZM3M8Q-5GvXoJ-7wuHT5\" title=\"Table soccer game\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48942647043_05906208fd_z.jpg\" alt=\"Table soccer game\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to the Belgian magazine, <em>Le Soir illustr\u00e9<\/em>,  the French inventor Lucien Rosengart (1881\u20131976) came up with the game of table football in the 1930s when he was looking for things to keep his grandchildren entertained during the cold winter months. He called the game &#8220;baby foot&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The name <strong>babyfoot<\/strong>, which is also written <strong>baby-foot<\/strong> is used in France, Canada and Switzerland. It is also known as <strong>football sur table<\/strong> or <strong>football de table<\/strong> in Canada, as <strong>kicker<\/strong> in Belgium, <strong>foot-foot<\/strong> in Switzerland, and <strong>football de table<\/strong> in France.<\/p>\n<p>I would call it <strong>table football<\/strong>, which is the usual name for this game in the UK, and was patented by Harold Searles Thornton in 1921.<\/p>\n<p>It was brought to the the USA in the 1950s by Lawrence Patterson, and it is called <strong>foosball<\/strong> [\u02c8fu\u02d0zb\u0254\u02d0l], which comes from the German name <strong>tischfu\u00dfball<\/strong> (table football).<\/p>\n<p>In German it is known as <strong>Tischfu\u00dfball<\/strong> (table football), <strong>Tischkicker<\/strong> (table kicker) or <strong>Kicker<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>What do you call it?<\/p>\n<p>Do you know any interesting names for this game in other languages?<\/p>\n<p><em>Sources: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Table_football\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Table_football<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Baby-foot\">https:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Baby-foot<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/de.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tischfu%C3%9Fball\">https:\/\/de.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tischfu\u00dfFball<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently the game pictured below is known as babyfoot in French. Which is kind of cute. According to the Belgian magazine, Le Soir illustr\u00e9, the French inventor Lucien Rosengart (1881\u20131976) came up with the game of table football in the 1930s when he was looking for things to keep his grandchildren entertained during the cold [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,111,116,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-french","category-german","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22174"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22182,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22174\/revisions\/22182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}