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Why do they keep calling Soccer Football?

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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 490667
8/25/2008 5:42 AM

Re: Why do they keep calling Soccer Football?	Quote
Ahhh, the poor uneducated Limeys with their Eurotrash inferiority complex can't admit when their wrong. Poor babies. Hey, go fill up your GAS tank with crude oil you stupid fucks.

Anonymous Coward
User ID: 490658
8/25/2008 5:50 AM

Re: Why do they keep calling Soccer Football?	Quote
Ahhh, the poor uneducated Limeys with their Eurotrash inferiority complex can't admit when their wrong. Poor babies. Hey, go fill up your GAS tank with crude oil you stupid fucks. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 490667 If you must know the facts, Gasoline is the fuckin same thing as Petroleum Spirit...yes plain ole petroleum is a raw material..

OxygenX
User ID: 477175
8/25/2008 5:53 AM

Re: Why do they keep calling Soccer Football?

Ahhh, the poor uneducated Limeys with their Eurotrash inferiority complex can't admit when their wrong. Poor babies. Hey, go fill up your GAS tank with crude oil you stupid fucks.

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 490667

Actually ...We fill up with Petroleum Spirit (Petrol) which is the same as Gasoline (Gas) Both are petroleum-derived liquid mixture consisting mostly of aliphatic hydrocarbons, enhanced with iso-octane or the aromatic hydrocarbons toluene and benzene to increase its octane rating.

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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 294313
8/25/2008 9:24 AM

Re: Why do they keep calling Soccer Football?

Ahhh, the poor uneducated Limeys with their Eurotrash inferiority complex can't admit when their wrong. Poor babies. Hey, go fill up your GAS tank with crude oil you stupid fucks.

Actually ...We fill up with Petroleum Spirit (Petrol) which is the same as Gasoline (Gas) Both are petroleum-derived liquid mixture consisting mostly of aliphatic hydrocarbons, enhanced with iso-octane or the aromatic hydrocarbons toluene and benzene to increase its octane rating.

Quoting: OxygenX

And while we're at it, why do the Yanks drop the 'u' in labour,neighbor,behavior etc. You were given the Queen's english, now please spell your words properly. That is all.

Anonymous Coward
User ID: 490748
8/25/2008 10:18 AM

Re: Why do they keep calling Soccer Football?

And while we're at it, why do the Yanks drop the 'u' in labour,neighbor,behavior etc. You were given the Queen's english, now please spell your words properly. That is all.

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 294313

According to the Oxford Dictionary: [link to www.askoxford.com]

labour
(US & Austral. labor)

• noun 1 work, especially hard physical work. 2 workers collectively. 3 (Labour) the Labour Party. 4 the process of childbirth.

• verb 1 work hard. 2 work at an unskilled manual job. 3 have difficulty despite working hard. 4 move with difficulty. 5 (labour under) be misled by (a mistaken belief).

— PHRASES a labour of love a task done for pleasure, not reward. labour the point elaborate something at excessive length.

— ORIGIN Latin labor ‘toil, trouble’.

Note that "labour" is derived from the Latin word "labor".

If you get the French influence our of English, you wind up with words such as "labor", "behavior", "favor", and so on.

Also, [link to www.englishclub.com]

>>snippit
Varieties of English
From around 1600, the English colonization of North America resulted in the creation of a distinct American variety of English. Some English pronunciations and words "froze" when they reached America. In some ways, American English is more like the English of Shakespeare than modern British English is. Some expressions that the British call "Americanisms" are in fact original British expressions that were preserved in the colonies while lost for a time in Britain (for example trash for rubbish, loan as a verb instead of lend, and fall for autumn; another example, frame-up, was re-imported into Britain through Hollywood gangster movies). Spanish also had an influence on American English (and subsequently British English), with words like canyon, ranch, stampede and vigilante being examples of Spanish words that entered English through the settlement of the American West. French words (through Louisiana) and West African words (through the slave trade) also influenced American English (and so, to an extent, British English).

Cheerio...

Anonymous Coward
User ID: 490748
8/25/2008 10:22 AM

Re: Why do they keep calling Soccer Football?	Quote
If you get the French influence our of English, you wind up with words such as "labor", "behavior", "favor", and so on. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 490748 out.....

fërú.

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User ID: 491173
8/26/2008 1:56 AM

Re: Why do they keep calling Soccer Football?

is futbol in Mexico...and all LatinAmerica, and rest of the world...
soccer is only in US

The name of the game in spanish speaking coutries is balonpies. In Spanglish is futbol (foot + ball) just because that is the way it sounds.

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 363321

no body call it balonpie no mames... is futbol,

by the way the ball game was play it for Mayans and Mixtecas and the rest of Mesoamerican tribes way before the stupid spanish came to conquer America

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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 77394
8/26/2008 2:46 AM

Re: Why do they keep calling Soccer Football?	Quote
but why you call it BALL when it is squished so out of shape...for Gladiators to grasp it with one hand...?

Anonymous Coward
User ID: 363321
8/26/2008 2:54 AM

Re: Why do they keep calling Soccer Football?

is futbol in Mexico...and all LatinAmerica, and rest of the world...
soccer is only in US

The name of the game in spanish speaking coutries is balonpies. In Spanglish is futbol (foot + ball) just because that is the way it sounds.

no body call it balonpie no mames... is futbol,

by the way the ball game was play it for Mayans and Mixtecas and the rest of Mesoamerican tribes way before the stupid spanish came to conquer America

Quoting: fërú.

Right. There are many ancient sites where the game was played in Latin A.

floydian slip
User ID: 1338
8/26/2008 3:02 AM

Re: Why do they keep calling Soccer Football?

Soccer should be called Football
American Football should be called Tackleball
Kickball should be called Kickball

Now that that's cleared up...Let's talk about Handball in the Olympics...

I liked the game but Handball to me is played with a small blue rubber ball that you hit with your hand up against a wall in an enclosed room.

Olympic Handball should have been called Rushball.

Quoting: antenna 251187

lol @ tackleball

chuckle

chuckle

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