Editing Rock paper scissors (section)

==Etymology==
The name "rock paper scissors" is simply a translation of the Japanese words for the three gestures involved in the game,<ref name="長田須磨・須山名保子共編 1977.4">{{Cite book
 |last=長田須磨・須山名保子共編 
 |title=『奄美方言分類辞典』上巻 
 |url=https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B000J8V5WU 
 |date=April 1977 
 |publisher=Kasama shoin 
 |location=Tokyo 
 |asin=B000J8V5WU 
 |asin-tld=co.jp 
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150714053837/http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/product/B000J8V5WU?%2AVersion%2A=1&%2Aentries%2A=0 
 |archive-date=2015-07-14 
 |url-status=live 
 |access-date=2015-07-14 
}}</ref> though the Japanese name for the game is different.

The name Roshambo or Rochambeau has been claimed to refer to [[Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau|Count Rochambeau]], who allegedly played the game during the [[American Revolutionary War]]. The legend that he played the game is apocryphal, as all evidence points to the game being brought to the United States later than 1910; if this name has anything to do with him it is for some other reason.<ref name="mentalfloss">{{cite web |url=https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/80201/why-do-people-call-rock-paper-scissors-roshambo |title=Why Do People Call Rock-Paper-Scissors "Roshambo?" |last=Ferro |first=Shaunacy |date=May 18, 2016 |website=[[Mental Floss]] |access-date=June 9, 2021 |archive-date=June 9, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210609121842/https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/80201/why-do-people-call-rock-paper-scissors-roshambo |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="teachinghistory">{{cite web |url=https://teachinghistory.org/history-content/ask-a-historian/23932 |title=Rock Paper Scissors |author=<!--Not stated--> |website=teachinghistory.org |publisher=Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University |access-date=June 9, 2021 |archive-date=June 9, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210609121843/https://teachinghistory.org/history-content/ask-a-historian/23932 |url-status=live }}</ref> It is unclear why this name became associated with the game, with hypotheses ranging from a slight phonetic similarity with the Japanese name ''jan-ken-pon,''<ref name="mentalfloss"/> to the presence of a statue of Rochambeau in a neighborhood of Washington, DC.<ref name="teachinghistory"/>