Look, I'm as American as they come

but it really makes more sense to call soccer football.

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Straylight · 31-35, F

Just like writing the date month/day/year, people in Europe ask why we do that when we learned it from them! Soccer was coined by Oxford students as shortened version of association football and it stuck.

Elessar · 31-35, M

@Straylight

Europe

Oxford

I mean geographically yeah, but come on, if you learned something from that island it's probably wrong 🥴

(Especially food)