How is this even a thing? The definition of around is “located or situated on every side.” Is it “located or situated on every side, with the first side going again?” This is insanity.
Perhaps the plain definition of the word “around” isn’t enough for you. Let’s consider what rounds mean in essentially every other context ever.
In fantasy baseball, the round is over once every person has drafted one time. It isn’t a round after the first person drafts again.
In boxing, a round is over after the bell rings. The bell doesn’t have to ring again to signify that the first round happened.
There’s a gif floating around that attempts to make you think 10 batters is batting around:
I made a GIF. 10 batters. Jesus christ pic.twitter.com/PKdT4n8KcV
— Bat Arounder (@Phylan) April 21, 2015
First, you can tell his argument is pretty spurious due to the language it’s couched in. The best part, though, is that he even shows that if you get to “leads off inning” again, even if it leads off the next inning, the cycle is now complete. 9 people went to the plate. A full rotation has now been completed. You have visual evidence of this event.
I think the only real headway a 10-manner can make is to argue to some detente. They might say, well, 9 men is “a round”, and 10 men is “around.” If that was the case, though, both definitions are meaningless, and in that case, the more sensible one should win out. I hope I’ve proved that the more sensible one is the one that makes sense.
Your challenge: provide me an example anywhere else in which the first member of something must go twice for a whole “round” to occur.