Liverpool or Real Madrid?

@BlueMetalChick football

@SW-User It's not football, if you're American or Canadian it's soccer, or if you're European it's futbol.

Although now that I think about it, I'm not sure what Aussies call it.

@BlueMetalChick I'm English and it's football

@SW-User Really? Cos I've never met an Englishman that didn't call it futbol.

@BlueMetalChick lol, I've never met any Englishman who calls it anything other than football.

@SW-User I'm skeptical. Nobody calls it football unless they wanna look stupid.

@BlueMetalChick and the game that y'all play is called football because..........you use your hands. And we're stupid? Gotcha 👍

@BlueMetalChick wow
ok
considering I am a football fan who goes to watch my team for 75% of their games...

@room101 Im Romanian, we don’t play American football. And it’s called football cos you kick the ball after every score.

@BlueMetalChick And what do you call football in Romania? Oh wait, English is not the national language of Romania. So you would call it "fotbal". At least, that's what google translate tells me.

So the players kick the "ball" for what, for 10% of the game? And, for the rest of the game they run around holding it.......with their hands. Yeah, seems very logical to call it football.

@room101 Yeah we usually call it fotbal or sometimes by the diminutive “fotto.”

It was called football at its inception because when the game was first invented, touchdowns weren’t the main way to score. Field goals were more important. Meaning you ran with the ball as close to the goal as you could get, then you kicked it with your foot to score points.

As the game progressed though people found it more exciting and fun to score points by running into the end zone, so now field goals are less important.

@BlueMetalChick The words "soccer" and "football" are [b]both[/b] correct.

@NankerPhelge FUTBOLLLLLL *waves a Mexican flag*

@BlueMetalChick I've always found that spelling rather comical. Lol :)

@NankerPhelge Why? It’s how the word is spelled. It’s where the word “football” game from to begin with.

@BlueMetalChick The word "football" is from the English words "foot" and "ball" for obvious reasons. I'm not being racist or anything, but I find foreign spellings of English words amusing. Lol :)

@NankerPhelge It’s not a foreign spelling of an English word, football is an English spelling of a foreign word.

If you wanted to get really technical, we should all be calling it Zuqiu. The Chinese invented soccer and that’s what they called it.

@BlueMetalChick I don't know about the Chinese so I can't say anything about that, but if the word "football" is an anglicised foreign word, that means that the two separate English words "foot" and "ball" must both be derived from that. I don't think the dictionary says that is the etymology of either word.

@NankerPhelge Which leads me to wonder who originally called it "football". My guess would be the Greeks, but that's only a hypothesis. The Mexican spelling probably came from English.

@BlueMetalChick What was the Greek word for "football"? I don't know that myself.

@NankerPhelge I don't either, but since they used both the Greek alphabet and a fair amount of Latin, it was just a guess.

@BlueMetalChick I did Latin in school, but not Greek. I knew from the age of 7 that the Greeks had their own alphabet. I found that out from the Newnes Family Reference Dictionary, which my dad bought when I was 7. There was an appendix in it which had various information in it including the complete Greek and Russian alphabets.

@BlueMetalChick I also knew then that the word "alphabet" itself was derived from the first two letters in the Greek alphabet (alpha and beta).