Washout vs split

[NewToBowling]

Why have two different names for essentially the same thing. To me a washout is a split. Sure you leave the 1 pin but it is still a tricky converstion

[fordman1]

If memory is still working it was coined by Johnny Kowalski in the 20's after getting stuck for a beer frame. He objected saying if you don't hit the head pin it isn't a split. Thus the term was born.

[got_a_300]

Why have two different names for essentially the same thing. To me a washout is a split. Sure you leave the 1 pin but it is still a tricky converstion

I agree with you but....... anytime you leave the head pin it isn't considered
to be a split I know it is kind of confusing but it is what it is.

[Mike White]

If memory is still working it was coined by Johnny Kowalski in the 20's after getting stuck for a beer frame. He objected saying if you don't hit the head pin it isn't a split. Thus the term was born.

This "if you don't hit the head pin it isn't a split" isn't quite true.

In league warmups, I've shot at, and hit just the 10 pin, and left the 6 - 7 split when the pin bounced back out of the pit.

[ChuckR]

Either leave can solicit certain verbal abuse towards my swing, the pins, the lanes or someone 5 lanes away when I am trying for a very good game. It isn't what you call the leave but the language used or thought.

[bowl1820]

Why have two different names for essentially the same thing. To me a washout is a split. Sure you leave the 1 pin but it is still a tricky converstion

Why? Because it's just a way describe a particular type of split. (A washout is noted on the score sheet as a "W").

[Blacksox1]

In my scores thread, I never consider a washout a split.