http://biblical-studies.ca/blog/2006/06/07/the-odd-language-of-sports/ My musings on Biblical Studies, Biblical Hebrew, Dead Sea Scrolls, Septuagint, Popular Culture, Religion, Software, and pretty much anything else that interests me! Sat, 08 Jun 2013 14:29:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://biblical-studies.ca/blog/2006/06/07/the-odd-language-of-sports/comment-page-1/#comment-2486 Mark Goodacre Thu, 08 Jun 2006 02:32:44 +0000 http://biblical-studies.ca/blog/wp/2006/06/07/the-odd-language-of-sports/#comment-2486 I must admit that it has been tough getting used to saying “soccer” here in the American context. Part of me wants to be stubborn and insist on “football” here, which is — after all — the international name. But then people just assume that you are talking about American Football, so that won’t do. But the “soc” in “soccer” comes from “Association Football” which is the proper name for the sport, and it has a good pedigree.
The context one occasionally hears “soccer” in in the UK is where rugby fans who don’t like football like to say “soccer” to distinguish it from rugby football.

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