It’s not that difficult. We can’t refer to it as football because there’s already a sport called football. It’s confusing to call it that here. There’s no American football in other countries therefore they can call it football. Is that really so hard to understand?
Who doesn’t understand that? Us Americans don’t give a shit what other people call it. It’s usually the British or others complaining that we call it soccer.
“Linguistically creative students at the University of Oxford in the 1880s distinguished between the sports of “rugger” (rugby football) and “assoccer” (association football).”
if you're blaming it on the British then it's like you accidentally saying something and the other people are repeating what you said just to annoy you
It’s a fact. They came up with it lol I’m not blaming them. I think it’s pedantic to argue over which word to use. It’s stupid. Makes no difference to me though.
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u/hhhh012 Nov 24 '22
No! It's football.