Now that’s kinda of a bitch move

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• Nangijala@feddit.dk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I personally don’t care what Britain calls it. The rest of Europe calls it football and we are not gonna switch to calling it soccer just because Americans get triggered.

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  • Malyca@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Football makes so much more sense than American football anyway

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• pno2nr@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Where does handegg fit into this?

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• TheOctonaut@piefed.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Actually this misses vital context (shock).

  Football was the name of the game for hundreds of years among the common people.

  Then at prestigious boarding schools, it became codified and gentrified as “association football”. Posh (read: elitist) slang often abbreviates things to -er. Hence (a)socc-er. The same applied to rubgy (fully originated in elitist schools) which is shortened to “rugger”. As in “rugger bugger”.

  So Americans are using the pretentious, elitist, never in common usage term, which they settled on either because of Americans thinking they were being worldly or because posh kids were the people that could travel to the US and influence things there.

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  • degen@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Holy shit I never knew where the word soccer came from. Shoulda called it assfoot tbh

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  • Danquebec@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The abbreviated “rugby”??? And to a word that’s just as long?

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    • TheOctonaut@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      These are shibboleths more than abbreviations but I guess soccer is both.

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  • jcorvera@quokk.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Ah yes, the Oxford “-er”.

    The latter, most likely. Also, when Rugby was introduced to Harvard, Harvard wanted to just call it Football, iirc.

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  • combatwombat@feddit.online@feddit.online ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    We call it soccer in the PNW because that’s what the lumber workers who brought the game here called it when they immigrated. I’m not sure they were particularly posh.

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    • TheOctonaut@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m not claiming that every individual calling it soccer was posh or indeed tried to sound posh. But that’s how it stuck in America, where there was no working class attachment to “football” to contend with, and why it sounds weird to European ears. It’s also a useful distinguishing word from… soccer because other football exists. Gaelic football where I’m from, Aussie Rules, and for reasons best unexplored, that game where Americans only allow one specific guy to kick the ball

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    • Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Same in Australia. Although we do have our own foot-the-ball game that may have been adapted from an indigenous game, no one fuckin’ knows

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• hOrni@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Poland here. We use the Polish term when we mean the European one and English when we mean the American one. Usually.

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  • danekrae@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Boom! Poland coming from left field, burning two countries with one swift move.

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• velma@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  “Kinda of”

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