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To: SoCal Pubbie

All the Brits I have ever heard speaking of the game call it “football.”


70 posted on 01/11/2017 9:41:01 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: DiogenesLamp

I understand that. But the word soccer comes from England. I can’t help it if they don’t know their own history.


79 posted on 01/11/2017 9:51:45 PM PST by SoCal Pubbie
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To: DiogenesLamp

Show this to the Brits:

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/06/why-we-call-soccer-soccer/372771/


84 posted on 01/11/2017 10:00:22 PM PST by SoCal Pubbie
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