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"?

• HamSwagwich@showeq.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And English… I’ve heard them use soccer as well on many occasions

  source

  • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah, soccer is actually an English term that they created to refer to association football, as opposed to rugby football or the hundreds of other forms of football.

    source
  • CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If an Englishman uses ‘soccer’ he’s almost certainly from the upper class.

    As “soccer” was played by the elite (such as the Oxford lad who is said to have coined “soccer”), it soon spread to the working classes, and became “football”.

    source
• prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And the British, at least when they’re not trying to make Americans look bad.

  source

  • Badeendje@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    [deleted]

    source

    • prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yes that’s a common slang for it

      source