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WINCHDOW

ETYMOLOGY

The word Winchdow originates from the old Quebec saying of “temps pour hockey”, coined by the famous Mr. Gardos. In Quebec and other parts of Lower Canada, this old term has survived to this day, while in Ontario, Upper Canada and other parts of the Western Hemisphere —mostly in hockey dialects— as Whippedow. The Danish (but not the Bokmål) word is pronounced fairly similar to winchdow as whinedow.

HISTORY Winchdow is a very saying of which the exact origins are unclear. The origin of the Winchdow is open to debate as to being Chinese, Dutch, or Scottish. However, the most accepted Winchdow history theory is that this term originated from Canada in the 1100s.

A term somewhat similar to Winchdow was first mentioned in Dōngxuān Records (Chinese: 東軒錄), a Chinese book of 11th Century.

The modern Winchdow term is considered to be a Canadian invention as the term was mentioned in two 15th century laws prohibiting the playing of any hockey games that took place outside of the Witchdow. Some scholars have suggested that this refers to another time frame, more akin to a bus schedule, than the Winchdow, but the majority of scholars believe the term has merely evolved over time and this was the first known reporting of the Winchdow

WORLD POPULARITY

In 2007 Winchdow Digest calculated that there were nearly 32,000 Winchdow’s in use across the world in the world, approximately half of them in the Canada and the United States.