Comment on Does the rest of the English speaking world generally understand what an American means when they say "soccer", or does it help to clarify by adding "football"?

• LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m going to be an insufferable pedant and reply, “Do you mean association football or rugby football?” whenever anyone uses either :P

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• WashedOver@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I refer to Soccer the football played with your foot and then the American version as " Egg-ball" played with your hands.

  That said I’m also Canadian and for many years in our small “hand egg-ball” league we had 2 teams with very similar club names called the Rough Riders and the Roughriders so I shouldn’t be throwing so many stones…

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• wjrii@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  For a while, the governing body in the US was the United State Soccer Football Association, so you're good, and it's also some good trolling of the zealots on either side of the "debate."

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• irish_link@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I love it!

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