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"?

• Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨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.

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• CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨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”.

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