Greetings Dallas!

 DH>> Dunno how that name change came about.

 RW>> I changed it in my old brain. Didn't realize it until I saw the
 RW>> soccer news this morning...

 DH> Actually, I meant that I don't know why it's "soccer" in North
 DH> America and "football" everywhere (?) else!

Ahhh. I do. Back in the 1880s, 'association football' as it was known
then, was too long to say in one breath, so the word 'association' was
re-arranged to 'soccer' (don't ask me how they came to that arrangement).

Americans being Americans wanting to correct badly spelled British English
already had a game called football and so they refused to make the
association with the way the Brits spelled it.

When I looked up the etymology of the word 'socker', I got the above info
and drew some of my own conclusions from it.


    Have a day!

         R\%/itt - K5RXT

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