Thread: Why "Groupset"?
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Old 06-30-24 | 11:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Jeff Neese
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.
And that's without even getting into sets in mathematics, which are usually contained in curly brackets {...}.
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