U.S. vs. UK: Where Does "Soccer" Come From?

Photo: US Team World CupThe second day of 2010 World Cup action heats up as Team USA takes upon England today, Saturday, June 12th, during 8:30 p.m. internal time during a Royal Bafoking Stadium in Rustenburg. In a U.S., ABC will begin a coverage of a diversion during 1:30 p.m. EST as well as kickoff's during 2:30 p.m. EST.

This is a first central match up in between a "cousins" since a 1-0 U.S. better of Team England during a 1950 World Cup in Brazil; a diversion many cruise a biggest dissapoint in World Cup history as well as possibly a U.S. team's biggest victory. Sixty years ago, when a U.S. as well as British media eventually got around to stating a game, many considered a news of a 1-0 U.S. win to be a typo.

In anticipation of today's large diversion (and as people who work with words, you couldn't resist), you thought we'd compare a rivals linguistically. British as well as U.S. English diverge upon multiform levels, in a realms of pronunciation, grammar, spelling, as well as vocabulary. Keeping things light, you wondered about a key disproportion in wording in between a dual nations that, given our topic, is quite relevant: Why do a British call a "world's game" football whilst Americans call it "soccer"?

Find out after a jump.




After a little digging,I'm happy to inform a following: Apparently American's word forfootball is a condensed chronicle of Assoccer, an shortening of"Association Football," a tenure given a diversion as it was played atelite British boys' schools in a 1860s. "Assoccer" became "soccer"and a name rather stuck as it served to heed it fromrugby-rules football.

As players, coaches, sailors, as well as theenthusiastic exported a diversion around a world courtesy of a BritishEmpire, internal languages appropriated "football" as a loan word. Forexample, a Spanish ftbol d! oesn't l iterally mix theSpanish words for "foot" as well as "ball" but is an approximation of theBritish word for a ever-popular game. The diversion came to U.S. shores inthe late 19th century as well as was called "football" in a U.S. until afterWorld War II when a increasing recognition of a National FootballLeague (NFL) prompted a change in name. Where English is a country'sfirst language, "football" often refers to a many popular form offootball in which country. Only 3 English-speaking FIFA countriesrefer to a diversion as "soccer": a U.S., Samoa, as well as Canada.

Nomatter what you call it, tune in to a large diversion as well as if you're in D.C.on Saturday, stop by DuPont Circle where all 3 of a day's gameswill be screened for a open by Soccer in a Circle, who hopes to raise enough income to show a Jul 11th finals as well.

For some-more upon a U.S. as well as UK,visit a Travel as well as Cultures section of a Nat Geo website where you'llfind quizzes, photo galleries, as well as much more. Or, to get psyched forthe World Cup, re-read a June 2006 National Geographic Magazinefeature story upon soccer, "The World's Game".

Photo: U.S. Soccer

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