[Lexicog] Football or Soccer?

[John Roberts]

Chaz,

I was talking to an American friend of mine a while ago about rugby. I think 
it was when England won the Rugby World Cup. He said, "Rugby, isn't that 
American football without the padding?" ...

England (the football team) will need to up their game if they are to win 
the World Cup.

Note for the grammarians: I would never say "England will need to up its 
game ... "

On the plurality of things: I was just watching a scene from Arsenic and Old 
Lace and Mortimer Brewster (Cary Grant) said to his Aunt Martha, "Others, 
you mean more than one others?"

John R



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