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‘Football’ or ‘soccer’

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‘Football’ or ‘soccer’ - Which word is best?

Should America change the name of their sport called football?
 
Maybe we should just call it "American Football" here too so we don't sound so pompous. :P
 
Football. End of discussion :p
 
(although derided in the UK as a crass Americanism, the word "Soccer" is in fact of British origin — it's an abbreviation of "asSOCiation" that was coined to distinguish the code from Rugby Football, aka "Rugger", making it one of the large number of British slang words ending in "-er"; Wikipedia has an entire article on the subject)
 
Soccer. It's yet another sign of entitlement we Americans are going to subject you fuckers to forever.
 
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