Soccer?

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Now I can never understand why American Football is called that, Football. It has less kicking than Rugby, either code. I sometimes refer to it as Throwball or Carryball, but Football?
 
charon-the-ferryman said:
probably the Allam of his day shortening Association to Soccer - bet they all thought 'what a ****'
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at that time there wouldn't have been much of an "all". you've only to look at what happens in amateur leagues several rungs down the "football pyramid" where the existence of most clubs is precarious, and where clubs disappear or are formed in a blink.

the word soccer appears around 1880. look through the teams that played in the 1880-81 FA Cup:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1880–81_FA_Cup
teams from colleges, the forces, etc. even two teams from brigg. only 7 of these teams went on to play in the football league, which began 7 years later.

sheffield wednesday did not include sheffield in their name until about 48 years later.
 
Ernie Shackleton said:
Soccer is an abomination if it's said in an American drawl - sore-ka.
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Wot? There's an American drawl? There are many accents (and drawls) across our land, and a Yankee sounds as foreign in Texas as does a Scouser. The phonetics you describe indicate a New Yorker. A Bostonian would say sock-ah. I won't even make an attempt at how it might sound coming from a Georgian, a Minnesotan, or a Cajun.
 
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OedipusTex said:
Wot? There's an American drawl? There are many accents (and drawls) across our land, and a Yankee sounds as foreign in Texas as does a Scouser. The phonetics you describe indicate a New Yorker. A Bostonian would say sock-ah. I won't even make an attempt at how it might sound coming from a Georgian, a Minnesotan, or a Cajun.
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We are indeed two countries divided by a common language (and forms of pronunciation).

I guess just as Americans say they love (or hate) an English accent we say the same about American accents even though it's obvious that subtle and non - subtle dialects exist across any common language.

BTW can you have a go at local pronunciation of soccer? It'd be fun. I'd love to know how soccer would sound coming from a Georgian, a Minnesotan, or a Cajun.


We could globalise it.

South Africa? - I'm going 'shikk-ah'
 
x said:
likely. going back some time it was one of those games played between villages with ten million on each side. not really what i was getting at, however.
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Images on the internet definitely suggest a round ball.

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"In 1508, poet Alexander Barclay gives us an early description of the ball: they get the bladder and blowe it great and thin, with many beans or peasons put within"

It was also clearly a kicking game, rugby had its own names.

https://football-origins.com/15-middle-age-relics-medieval-football-in-great-britain/
 
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