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[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.today 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

it was called soccer before it was called football in England

you will never get Americans to not call the ball a football and a soccer ball

[–] Jyek@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's not true... Soccer is what some of the english called it and that was an abbreviation of association football. It has always been football and for a short time in one place it was soccer in england and then it was football again everywhere. It came to the US as soccer and never changed. But it was always football.

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

dude, just look it up

it's fact. the upper class didn't want to play soccer because the lower class were playing it so they called it football

[–] mj_marathon@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You wanna cite your source? This I can't find anything to support your claim.

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.today 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

https://www.britannica.com/story/why-do-some-people-call-football-soccer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_(word)

The word "soccer" originated as an Oxford "-er" slang abbreviation of "association", and is credited to late nineteenth century English footballer, Charles Wreford-Brown.[8] It has been speculated that both this story and the William Webb Ellis rugby story are apocryphal, however this appears to be a revision of history as the English term "soccer" fell out of favour while England differentiated their language from America's (where the term soccer had become widely used) English in the 20th century due to growing American popularity.[9] "Socker" with a k appeared in print at least as early as 1889.[10] The New York Times, published in 1905: "It was a fad at Oxford and Cambridge to use 'er' at the end of many words, such as foot-er, sport-er, and as Association did not take an 'er' easily, it was, and is, sometimes spoken of as Soccer."[11] There is also the sometimes-heard variation, "soccer football".[12]

[–] Jyek@sh.itjust.works 4 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Your source says the same thing I said... The word soccer comes from abbreviating "association". As in association football.

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.today 3 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

it was foot ball because it was a ball game played on your feet. Rugby was foot ball you played with your hands and Association foot ball was kicked. People called it soccer before it was formally called football (without the space)