So why can’t they just call it a uniform, then?
Obi’s Sister is snarking about England’s shiny new red “kit,” which they wore today against Slovenia instead of the white-and-blue “kit” they’ve worn up until now.
“Kit,” she makes sure to tell me personally, means “uniform.”
So why the hell don’t they just call it a uniform? And while we’re at it, why don’t they call it a game, instead of a match? And a team, instead of a side? What are they, half a dead cow?
Well, okay, match, I kind of get that. Tennis match, wrestling match, soccer futbol match. Fine.
And a ball’s a ball, at least. And a goal’s a goal. Or a gooooooooooooooooooooooooooal. And the South African team is Bafana Bafana, and Brazil’s got a guy named Kaka. Seriously: I had the Brazil-Ivory Coast game match on Sunday, and the commentator kept saying “kaka,” and I wondered whether he might get in trouble for that.
Because if you kaboodle in a uniform, you might be an amphibian.
How come you don’t complain about martial artists using gis instead of uniforms?
You’ve seen how those soccer kids in their kits drop to the ground and writhe in agony if you breathe hard on them and expect you can take them, but black belts in aikido are a different thing altogether.
The same reason they call gas, petrol and subway, tube and a car trunk, the boot.
No wonder we revolted.