2006-10-22 00:46:35 · 13 answers · asked by limpit58 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
This most popular of swimming games owes it's name to the Venetian explorer of the late 1200s and early 1300s whose travels to China, India and other parts of Asia helped to introduce the "mysterious Orient" to Western Europe.
Legend says that Marco Polo did not know where he was going when he first set out on his travels- hence the game's name.
2006-10-22 00:50:52 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why, are we pronouncing it incorrectly? I can't say that explorer Marco Polo pops up often in my conversations but I'd like to be correct if and when he does
2006-10-22 00:55:12 · answer #2 · answered by angelina.rose 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Marco?
2006-10-22 00:50:40 · answer #3 · answered by Slappy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i do no longer ideas it, i exploit it jointly as texting all the time. many people my age don't are conscious of it & can't get it! additionally they have been taught at school that a spelling mistake grew to become right into a cardinal SIN! So having that pounded into Your cranium for many some years it extremely is complicated to alter the certainty that all and sundry you spot are spelling blunders no longer short varieties.
2016-11-24 22:23:46 · answer #4 · answered by zorine 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is the name of the explorer . In English Mark Paul.
2006-10-22 00:49:16 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
polo
2006-10-22 00:57:29 · answer #6 · answered by lyndsbean 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is shorter than Christopher Columbus
2006-10-22 00:57:53 · answer #7 · answered by LORD Z 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Who says it? I've never heard it said out of context.
2006-10-23 06:24:25 · answer #8 · answered by jacquikuk 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Is there another way to pronounce it?
2006-10-22 00:49:32 · answer #9 · answered by WC 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Would you rather they say your name?
2006-10-22 01:44:25 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋