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Claire :
“Football” originally referred to a sport played using a ball and “on foot” as opposed to on horseback. It was a catch all term that could refer to many different games!
2025-03-03 20:24:07
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Lancemus Prime :
I'll do ya one better, the UK could've easily kept using "Soccer" since it was already there, but switched away because it sounded too "American"...
2025-03-03 22:57:20
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Alex C :
given the fact that the US is trying to destroy my country, anti-US sentiment is entirely justified.
2025-03-05 11:04:13
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Super Dave, RN :
Canada, USA, Australia, and New Zealand call it soccer. What do they all have in common?
2025-03-03 23:51:06
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nohbuddy :
It's like when they complain about us to using metric. The UK gave us the imperial system!
2025-03-04 09:30:43
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Uma :
And people love to forget that it was (and occasionally still is) called soccer in the UK until pretty recently. Plus it’s called soccer in countries other than the US as well
2025-03-04 00:10:10
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Chavez :
It’s also worth noting “football” was referred to as any game played on foot. Thats why Rugby Football also has football in the name.
2025-03-04 17:26:41
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ミ★ Hoosier Daddy ★彡 :
All of the sports under the umbrella term “football” were named as such because they were played ON FOOT, as opposed to other sports played on horseback, such as polo.
2025-03-05 14:11:34
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Brian Jones :
The word soccer is a shortened college slang term in Britain that comes from association football. It came over to America and it’s stuck there while it changed in Britain.
2025-03-03 20:57:58
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dani darl+ing :
"soccer" doesn't even follow American nicknaming conventions: we could have been given 1000 years and we would not have independently come up with soccer, but rather something completely different. like they were also calling rubgy "rugger" for a bit there, and again, that simply isnt the same conventions we tend to use when colloquializing a nickname in America. I've brought this up when a UKer brings up soccer as a gotcha, or the fact that Australia also commonly says soccer, but it's typically just met with derision.
2025-03-04 20:20:59
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Rory V. :
this also happened with Z (Zee vs Zed). English people used to use both. Zee made it to America and then English decided to stop using Zee
2025-03-05 20:20:23
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cameraman502 :
I'm here for the rounders hate.
2025-03-04 02:30:21
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hatemom :
Excellent post. A lot of information presented in a well organized manner. 👏👏👏👏
2025-03-04 21:15:00
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Omega_Supreme :
Grid Iron
2025-03-04 12:14:52
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user5617315440641 :
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2025-03-03 22:18:16
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maggot brain :
the answer is always British arrogance and classism. "herb" "soccer" and unseasoned foods are all examples of this. someone they looked down on said/did one thing, so they did the opposite.
2025-03-03 19:58:34
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tigerlily :
talking to Europeans about the US is like talking to maga. they're so desperate to "win" they end up losing all sense and believing the most deranged nonsense
2025-03-04 00:02:06
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hollowkatt :
The UK named it soccer in the 1800s when school boys would call Rugby Ruggers. Couldn't call association football asser so they went with Soccer.
2025-03-03 20:46:08
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