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Byo-yomi Discussion
    Keywords: Go term

From the ByoYomi page: The term is also used loosely (and inaccurately) to refer to other forms of overtime.

Dieter: This may be inaccurate usage, but I fear it is a case of "Too late." It is impossible to teach all Western Go players not to say "ByoYomi" when they mean overtime. In my language there are several words that have been misused and abused for such a long time and by so many people that the dictionary now contains the erroneous usage and no longer the correct one. Regrettable but inevitable.

SAS: In the UK, the incorrect usage of "byo-yomi" has not taken over. (To check I wasn't imagining this, I looked through all the recent tournament entry forms I could find - none use the word "byo-yomi", almost all use the word "overtime", and two manage to avoid either word.)



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