Tic-tac-toe (was: RE: Bulbs in parallel)

12 Jan 1999

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   ObOT: BTW,
does anybody know approximately when tit-tat-toe got renamed
 tic-tac-toe?  Or is a regional thing? 
 Don't our "Queen's English" friends (uk and au) call it "naughts
and
 crosses"? Well, I _did_ call it that when I wrote a programme, sorry, program
fom my
PET to play it.  But it was a pun on the more conventional spelling,
"noughts and crosses"

AFAICT, Nought = Zero, Naught = Nothing

Tic-Tac-Toe is a name I had met even then, but Tit-Tat-Toe I've not come
across before.  Any etymological connection with Tit for Tat?

Philip.

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Tic-tac-toe (was: RE: Bulbs in parallel)