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Same. *NM* Liam Send a noteboard - 02/07/2010 09:51:16 AM
Perhaps Yahoo will succeed where I failed. Though I doubt it. Whether I make the observation or Yahoo does, however, it remains ironic that Brits are usually the first to object to use of a term they invented. Association football-->soccer, to distinguish it from a host of other games (including no less than two forms of rugby and two more derivatives of it, unless you want to count Canadian pro and/or US college football as still more) that could just as easily be called "football" and often are. The British quite rightly chose a term that would unambiguously identify association football as such; likewise, I've come to refer to US football as "gridiron" when I know fans and players of other games are around, to make clear I don't mean Aussie rules, rugby league/union or soccer (and also because, much as with soccer, most Aussies will quickly recognize gridiron when I call it that. )
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So, soccer is actually a British term- who knew? - 02/07/2010 04:09:26 AM 790 Views
That doesn't change the fact that calling a game played with hands and an oval "football" is silly *NM* - 02/07/2010 07:22:33 AM 231 Views
You've been seeing too much John Cleese haven't you? - 02/07/2010 08:55:49 AM 649 Views
Wait, so "spherical" is implicit in the term "football"? - 02/07/2010 09:14:07 AM 524 Views
You must have missed the "ball" part. You know, round object? - 02/07/2010 09:38:15 AM 536 Views
"Round" includes "ovular" as well as "spherical. " - 02/07/2010 10:04:24 AM 710 Views
The objec used in rugby is called a ball. - 02/07/2010 12:35:17 PM 550 Views
It is called an egg - 02/07/2010 12:37:02 PM 541 Views
Formal dances are also called balls - 02/07/2010 11:39:21 PM 538 Views
Not sure it's the same word though - 02/07/2010 11:46:09 PM 674 Views
It's round if you view it point on. *NM* - 03/07/2010 01:01:25 AM 210 Views
Soccer players use their hands and football players use their feet - 03/07/2010 12:57:18 AM 585 Views
That's really nitpicking and you know it. - 03/07/2010 01:41:31 AM 464 Views
I knew, and have pointed out much of this on several occasions. - 02/07/2010 09:11:38 AM 482 Views
Same. *NM* - 02/07/2010 09:51:16 AM 201 Views
Yes but only upper class rugger buggers use it - 02/07/2010 11:32:33 AM 517 Views
You can't be snide about being working class and upper class in the same thread *NM* - 02/07/2010 12:52:50 PM 210 Views
Yes I bally well can! - 02/07/2010 01:03:38 PM 511 Views
Two words: - 02/07/2010 02:34:25 PM 522 Views
Okay, to be serious - 02/07/2010 02:55:13 PM 530 Views
I don't think you understand. - 02/07/2010 02:59:56 PM 527 Views
I say old fruit - 02/07/2010 03:05:33 PM 503 Views
Nyah - 02/07/2010 03:15:08 PM 503 Views
Re: I don't think you understand. - 02/07/2010 10:36:17 PM 462 Views
I knew, because Liam up there told me. Aqaaages ago *NM* - 03/07/2010 04:41:55 AM 297 Views

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