Solution to debate from Friday night outing

[caldwema]

The meaning of the word 'Soccer'

As this was a hot topic of debate at the get together on Friday night/Saturday morning (by the time we got around to this) I decided to google it, because that is how you find out the answers to all of life’s important questions .

Congratulations to FlyingDodo, who was correct, and obviously has room for useless trivia ;-) Hey maybe we should try a quiz night as one of our outings, would probably prove to be a very interesting evening.

I give you straight from google answers;

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary
Dictionary and Thesaurus - Merriam-Webster Online
"Main Entry: soc cer
Pronunciation: 's -k&r
Function: noun
Etymology: by shortening & alteration from association football
Date: 1889
: a game played on a field between two teams of 11 players each with
the object to propel a round ball into the opponent's goal by kicking
or by hitting it with any part of the body except the hands and arms
-- called also association football"

Wordorigins.org
http://www.wordorigins.org/wordors.htm
"Soccer
Soccer is an abbreviation for Association Football. The Football
Association was formed in London in October 1863 when representatives
of eleven clubs and schools met in an attempt to standardize the rules
of the game. One of the rules prohibited the carrying of the ball, a
rule that would lead to the Rugby-oriented clubs leaving the
Association several months later. The name Association Football was
coined to distinguish it from Rugby.

By 1889, the abbreviation socca' was in use, and the spelling soccer
had made its appearance by 1895."

We have to thank the students of the 1880s for the word "soccer". It
seems it was the practice amonst the well bred students of Oxford to
abbreviate words whilst adding "er" to the end; "brekkers" for
breakfast for example.

On asked if he wanted to play "rugger" (i.e. the "rugby rules") a
student replied "no, soccer", an abbreviation of "association", or the
"association rules", i.e. the rules of the Football Association in
London.

[mazdaRX8]

Get back to work! =P

[FlyingDodo]

Do I win a prize?

[gforce23]

Errr.. what else could soccer mean?

[crazymazy1980]

Eiither way Football is Football and that is good old English Association Football and not that throw-ball game in the US and A

[rosco]

I remember babbling about this at some point

I think I lost

americans call soccer what we call football.

[caldwema]

I agree 100% it was, is and always be football, but the debate was where the word soccer came from. And wither we could blame the Americans for that awful word, apparently not.

[gforce23]

Hmm.. I think the term "football" when used down under generally refers to Aussie rules football, so it's not just Americans who're aberrant.

[crazymazy1980]

Originally Posted by gforce23

Hmm.. I think the term "football" when used down under generally refers to Aussie rules football, so it's not just Americans who're aberrant.

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There is only ONE football...

...Caldwema, you are American as well aren't you? Isn't that why you support such a rubbish football team?

[gforce23]

Originally Posted by crazymazy1980

...Caldwema, you are American as well aren't you? Isn't that why you support such a rubbish football team?

WHO SAYS AMERICANS SUPPORT RUBBISH FOOTBALL TEAMS!?!

I was jumping on my couch when Berbie, Rooney and Vidic pumped those goals against Chel$ea yesterday.