[Lexicog] Naming the Beautiful Game: Football or Soccer?

John Roberts dr_john_roberts at SIL.ORG
Sat Jun 17 13:45:53 UTC 2006


Hi Fritz,

Having read your article it seems to me that the folks who call football 
"soccer", i.e. the Americans, Australians and Canadians, are the ones who 
don't play the game very well. They don't even know what to call the game. 
:-) For the rest of us, it is football - the beautiful game.

John Roberts

British > English > Liverpudlian > Everton supporter (we shouldn't have sold 
Wayne Rooney)




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