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Why?
[edit]Why 7 ft 9¼ in? I've never, ever seen an explanation for such an irregular distance. It's even less rational than the standard railway gauge, and hopefully the explanation is even more entertaining! The Yowser (talk) 14:09, 22 June 2011 (UTC)
Why Oche? As I remember it, the word "hockey" was mispronounced "ock-hee" by one of the commentators on darts on the television who came from the north-east of England and was speaking the way most north-easterners speak (Note: this is not meant to be offensive to anyone), by dropping the initial "h" and adding an extraneous one at the start of the second syllable. It was then spelt "phonetically"; if I were to spell it I would add a "k" between the "c" and "h" to prevent the "ch" being sounded like "ch" in "church". BudgieJane (talk) 15:21, 8 January 2016 (UTC)
- One of the stories I heard about 7' 9.25" was that it is an average of the distances used by various leagues throughout Britain when country-wide standards were determined. 2001:56A:F414:D300:914:2713:A447:3D51 (talk) 06:38, 26 February 2016 (UTC)
Detail
[edit]Needs more detail. How does the line work? Does the whole of the foot have to be behind the whole of the line? Or can no part of the foot be forward of the front of the line? etc — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.93.102.220 (talk) 14:06, 25 April 2017 (UTC)
Greek?
[edit]Anything to do with Greek for "no", όχι? Wikiain (talk) 18:28, 15 March 2018 (UTC)
Metric
[edit]Does the metric equivalent of 7ft 9.25in really need to have 5 decimal places? That implies accuracy to 1/100th of a millimetre! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.44.36.182 (talk) 22:12, 24 July 2020 (UTC)
- Fixed it: 2dp seems sufficient ~dom Kaos~ (talk) 22:25, 2 January 2025 (UTC)
Why the spelling "oche"
[edit]This is so unusual, and there is no hint in the article as to why this word is spelled that way. --Anvilaquarius (talk) 19:58, 29 December 2020 (UTC)