Are they called marbles or balls?: the game that divides social networks

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Canicas or balls? That is the question. This is the latest discussion on the social network Twitter. The word “marbles” is trending as a result of the publication of a user who posted a photo and asked: “How did you call this? I’m little balls like any good person.” From there, the avalanche of comments began with the various ways that people have to call them.

“Balls and balls according to size. Steel balls to the bearings of the trucks and steel balls to the smallest ones. Milkmaids to those who were white”, commented a user. “In Galicia (Spain) we call them marbles, balls or, if they were large, bolones. We called the normal ones ‘glass’, then there were ‘steel’ and the white ones ‘bone'”, contributed another person.

There are places where they are not called balls or marbles. “In Venezuela, the small pichas the big torombolas. We said ‘we are going to play pichas'”. But there is more: “In Guayaquil (Ecuador) “Bolichas” and the great “Bolondrón” to play Los Ñocos, Pepo and Trulo, a game whose name escapes me where we placed X number of bowls in a circle and there were to take them out with another, when they were chopped we called them “quiñadas”.

The Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) collects the word marble to refer to a “small ball of clay, glass or other hard material, used by children to play”.

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