From Bodo/Glimt to Liverpool (Montevideo) and D.C. United: Why club names have punctuation
There are a few unusual things about Bodo/Glimt.They play in the Arctic Circle, for a start. They’re also the first Norwegian side to reach the semi-finals of a European competition, as they prepare to face Tottenham Hotspur in the Europa League.They’re also unusual in that their name features punctuation. It’s not every day you see a football club name with a slash in it: almost as if they’re inviting the reader to choose between Bodo and Glimt.AdvertisementThe story behind the name is relatively straightforward. The club is from the town of Bodo, in the north of Norway, and initially simply went by the nickname Glimt, which means ‘flash’. Then, in the 1940s, because another team in Norway had the same name, they incorporated the town and it was initially hyphenated — Bodo-Glimt, to signify Glimt from Bodo.However, that became confusing […]
