Why is football called 'soccer' in the US and Canada?
Football is life for millions of fans around the world, but in two World Cup co-host nations, they tend to call it by a different name.
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"I think it's very polite of them to apologise, but I tell them: 'It's an English word - feel free to use it.'"
— Stefan Szymanski , Academic
"When I was a child in England, the word 'soccer' was perfectly acceptable."
— Stefan Szymanski , Academic
"My intuition is that 'soccer' and 'rugger' were already being used verbally and had appeared in print earlier that year (1885) in another, as yet unidentified, publication."
— Andy Mitchell , Academic
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Football is life for millions of fans around the world, but in two World Cup co-host nations, they tend to call it by a different name.
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