On a point of pure pedantry, I believe that the term "marconi rig" was first used, more or less as a joke, about the type of one piece mainmast for gaff rig, with the topmast socketed into the head of the lowermast, used briefly by the Big Class racing cutters in the 1920's before they converted to Bermudian rig, and the reference is to the amount of rigging needed to hold the tall mast up, which resembled the sort of rigging used on radio masts.
The term was carried over into Bermudian rig, which needs an equally tall mast or even taller, so really the terms are interchangeable.
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