Tic-tac-toe (was: RE: Bulbs in parallel)

From: Philip.Belben_at_pgen.com <(Philip.Belben_at_pgen.com)>
Date: Tue Jan 12 07:33:09 1999

>> ObOT: BTW, does anybody know approximately when tit-tat-toe got renamed
>> tic-tac-toe? Or is a regional thing?
>
> Don't our "Queen's English" friends (uk and au) call it "naughts and
> crosses"?
Well, I _did_ call it that when I wrote a programme, sorry, program fom my
PET to play it. But it was a pun on the more conventional spelling,
"noughts and crosses"

AFAICT, Nought = Zero, Naught = Nothing

Tic-Tac-Toe is a name I had met even then, but Tit-Tat-Toe I've not come
across before. Any etymological connection with Tit for Tat?

Philip.
Received on Tue Jan 12 1999 - 07:33:09 GMT