Soccer-speak

[paul johnson]

paul johnson wrote
Apparently the Brits seem to be the only ones that can handle some of
the exotic (to USA ears) names of the players
On 8/3/2012 5:16 PM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:
> Is it the prestige of the language, or just that, when you watch English
> soccer, you tend to hear British English announcers.
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> DanG
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> On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Charles C Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:
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>> Those who have been following Olympics women's soccer may have noticed
>> that, over the course of the USA's games, the NBC commentator Brandi
>> Chastain--perhaps influenced by her associate announcer, a Brit--has
>> increasing employed plural verbs with nation/team names:  “North Korea have
>> . . .”; “New Zealand do not . . .”; "The United States are now . . ."; and
>> the like.
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>> I believe British English has always some enjoyed prestige among American
>> soccer coaches, players, and enthusiasts, probably because of the
>> comparative recency of soccer's import as a serious sport.
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>> --Charlie
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