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Old 02-16-2009, 04:20 PM
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Is it pronounced Mo-sport or Mos-port?

I know I have far better things to do, but it still is a question I have not figured out (have heard it pronounced both ways).

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Old 02-16-2009, 04:30 PM
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Mos - Port.
Old 02-16-2009, 04:32 PM
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Since the Canadian track's name probably had nothing to do with "moss", I suspect it was a contraction of "motor sport".

Thus, "Moe-sport".

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Need a tie breaker!

Like I said, have heard it both ways!

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Originally Posted by sub006
Since the Canadian track's name probably had nothing to do with "moss", I suspect it was a contraction of "motor sport".

Thus, "Moe-sport".

Nyuck-nyuck!
Wikipedia confirms that:

Mosport International Raceway (formerly Mosport Park) is a multi-track facility located north of Bowmanville, Ontario. The facility features a 2.453-mile (3.9 km),(length reduced through wider track re-surfacing done in 2003) 10-turn road course; a half-mile paved oval; a 2.4 km advance driver and race driver training facility with a quarter-mile skid pad (Mosport Driver Development Centre) and a 1.4 km kart track (Mosport International Karting). The name "Mosport" is a contraction of Motor Sport, pronounced "Moe-Sport", and came from the enterprise formed to build the track.

It was designed and built in the late 1950s, and held its first major race in 1961, the Player's 200, a sports car race bringing drivers from the world over to rural Ontario. Stirling Moss won the event in a Lotus 19. The proposed hairpin was expanded into two discrete corners, to be of greater challenge to the drivers and more interesting for the spectators, at his suggestion, and is named Moss Corner in his honour. This is a source of lingering confusion as many people call the track Mossport.


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Old 02-16-2009, 05:06 PM
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Originally Posted by C2Driver
Wikipedia confirms that:





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Well, I think we have a winner (who would question Wikipedia?).

Thanks guys!

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True way to say it is "Moe Sport", but I think most of us are guilty of saying it Moss Port. I know I do.
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They named it after the winner that year, Stirling Moss, hence "Moss Sport".








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