The word Soccer is actually British - it’s short for Association as in Football Association, although it’s sland from Oxford University of all places, and is late Victorian.
Irony is a surprising number of “Americanisms” turn out to be old British terms that died out in Britain but reached and continued in the US.
BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world 6 months ago
The word Soccer is actually British - it’s short for Association as in Football Association, although it’s sland from Oxford University of all places, and is late Victorian.
Irony is a surprising number of “Americanisms” turn out to be old British terms that died out in Britain but reached and continued in the US.