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Originally Posted by Berklon
When someone pokes fun of me for using the "Americanized" term of soccer instead of football, I gently remind them that it was an Englishman who invented the word and that the British adopted it for a while... and the word "football" wasn't even used until years later. That usually shuts them up.
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The English didn't "adopt" football until the 1970's. Before that Soccer was used, and you are right it shuts most up quick smart.
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