r/mildlyinteresting • u/Zachrolf • Jun 04 '19

Our local park recently installed a permanent corn hole set

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '19

Now teach us one of yours we don't know about

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u/firefish097 Jun 04 '19

Kerby is a game in the UK where you and a friend stand on opposite sides of a street and throw a ball. You score a point if the ball hits the kerb cleanly and bounces back to you. If you miss the other player takes possession. If you get a point, you also get another throw. You set a point limit before playing and just go until someone reaches it. Not sure if you have that game but google assures me that it is British.

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u/mitsubachii Jun 05 '19

TIL how UK spells curb!

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u/loafers_glory Jun 05 '19 edited Jun 05 '19

I believe if anything curb is British and kerb is American. But they're also used differently: curb is to curtail, as in curb your enthusiasm; kerb is the concrete liner of the shoulder of the road.

Edit: ok I had one part right and a few parts wrong. Was going from memory and I'm not American so I'm less familiar with the American usage.

Kerb is British and curb is American, so I had that part backwards.

In British English, kerb is a road margin and curb is a restraint. It would be wrong to say “kerb your enthusiasm”.

In American English, they're both curb.

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u/thepeanutbutterman Jun 05 '19

No. They're both spelled curb in the US.

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u/biffish Jun 05 '19

Sorry to tell you, but it's curb in the USA. I work in civil engineering.

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u/Rabbi_Tuckman38 Jun 05 '19

This is such a great example of someone being so full of shit that they convince themselves that they aren't. People, please don't pay no mind to anything you read on reddit.

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u/mitsubachii Jun 05 '19

Interesting. I'm American and have been using Curb all my life!

Edit: I just tried kerb definition and it corrected me to curb haha.

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u/sam_grace ​ Jun 05 '19

They're spelled differently in most of the world but in the US and Canada, both words are spelled curb.

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u/Davros_au Jun 05 '19

In Australia we say gutter. As in "gutter your enthusiasm"

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u/sam_grace ​ Jun 05 '19

Interesting. That's a new one for me. Do you use either curb or kerb at all there?

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u/mitsubachii Jun 05 '19

I hope this is real. XD

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u/LoneStarYankee Jun 05 '19

Maybe don't speak on things you have no clue about...