Thread: Why "Groupset"?
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Old 06-30-24 | 05:19 AM
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Jeff Neese
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Originally Posted by noglider
I'm a real-life pedantic English teacher, and the term groupset annoys me, too.

A group is a set.
A set is a group.
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With all due respect to your credentials as an English teacher, I'm not sure that's technically correct.

You can have a group of chess pieces, that are not a set. You can have a group of bicycle parts that are not a groupset. Conversely, I think we can have a set of something that is not a group. A single set of salt and pepper shakers come to mind. But if you collect salt and pepper shakers, you would have a group of salt and pepper sets.

The words set and group have slightly different meanings, even if the difference is somewhat nuanced.

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