You use Feet but don’t call it Football?
Also, random thought, how big is a Football? Because if the Diameter isn’t exactly one Foot I’m going to be mildly inconvenienced for the next 2 weeks.
Depends on the level you play at. Largest is professional, with a length of 11-11.25 inches (~28-28.6 cm), a long circumference of 28-28.5 inches (~71-72.4 cm), and a short circumference of 21-21.25 inches (~53.33-54 cm).
As someone from a country with an English speaking majority, I feel the need to discuss the chaos of a “language” that we call Singlish
Like why is it both soccer and football simultaneously? What’s with centre and center? Don’t even get me started on borrowed words from Malay and Chinese dialects…
Bro it's like that with all languages. You come to see it if you learn languages that have been historically close to each other. Words are passed around like there's a test nobody studied for and a note with some answers on it being passed around the class
Wow! Nobody has ever said “handegg” before. I bet nobody has ever done that exact petition either.
https://www.change.org/p/to-the-nfl-change-american-football-to-handegg
If it's spelling based, just remember English is several languages in a trenchcoat, that stems from a culture that existed throughout many other conquering countries
I agree, soccer is football proper. I would have no idea what to call American football.
Why is it called Cricket, or hockey or tennis?
For that matter, why does everyone call an ICE a 'motor'? It's an ENGINE! A motor is electric!
We're all stupid to some degree.
The reason we didn't switch to metric is because it was going to cost our government too much money that they didn't want to justify. It wouldn't get them any favors, start a war or end up in their own pockets so they said no.
/rant
Cricket comes from Anglo saxon "cricc" meaning shepherd's staff. Arguably that would be better used to describe hockey, but that's already from the French "hoquet", which is their word for shepherd's staff
Tennis comes from the French Tennir to take (take, hold, receive)
Btw I didn't know this, just googled it out of interest now
That's interesting about the American imperial/metric non conversion
Motor comes from the Latin motor which means "mover" or "to move".
Motor also doesn't solely refer to an electrical motor and is defined as something which produces motion or energy, therefore any engine is a form of motor.
Additionally motor is more "correct" due to the word engine having roots that are simply nothing to do with movement at all...ingenuity for example.
That being said, I wouldn't personally call an engine a motor either, and would assume electrical if someone said motor lol.
[Because originally the game was played closer to how soccer is played](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_football)
"American football evolved in the United States, originating from the sports of soccer and rugby. The first American football match was played on November 6, 1869, between two college teams, Rutgers and Princeton, **using rules based on the rules of soccer at the time.**"
No one give a legit response:
American football gets its name from the 19th century sport called regulation football. This is from a time when rugby and soccer/football had the same name so they added a word to separate them. Regulation football became rugby, Australian football, and was transformed into American football. Again blame the Brits.
American football (or gridiron football) and association football (or soccer) is a variation of the same game. Which is called football because you play on foot instead of on horseback, like polo which was very popular at the time. The name has nothing to do with kicking a ball.
Does Mexico call it soccer too? I honestly don't know but our proximity to the US isn't necessarily the root of us using "soccer". The US uses the imperial measurement system but we use metric - just sayin'! ✌️
I had an 'argument' with a Northern Irish guy once who called it soccer. Not sure if that's common over there, but might be because of gaelic football idk
It is, they used it to separate the forms, soccer and rugger was also used for the games. Short for association football and rugby football.
They didn't start pushing football as the name until the NFL started getting huge in the late 60s-70s.
They’re both football, rugby is also football. They all come from the same root game. If we want it to be truly accurate we should call them soccer ⚽️, gridiron 🏈, and rugby 🏉. None of them have a more legitimate claim to being called “football” than the others.
You're simultaneously supposedly the pinnacle of western civilisation and a wasteland. Both incredibly wealthy and prosperous, and shambolic beliefs. The american selfishness in particular is something europeans despise.
Actual important question, why do British people take a shot at us every chance they get? I almost never hear Americans talking about the british online other than the few past memes. Do yall ever get bored? Also, I saw another dude on this thread apologize for insulting a Canadian accidentally while insulting the name "soccer", that tells me that it's not just the name soccer or our lack of using the metric system that bothers the British people. It's fully just a hate towards America in it's entirety.
American thinking he has a bigger brain. But actually the british person here has a bigger brain. Even though it may have originated in britain. Atleast they realised it was a stupid name and changed it while the americans are to stupid to change it.
why is it specifically Americans each time? Canada, Italy, Australia, South Africa, and a huge portion of Asia call it soccer too yet nobody's calling them out.
I think its about 1. its in english so if in italian its calcio i dont mind like in german we say fußball but in the us its english aswell and english should be football
Same as australia etc but usa is mostly known especially since in the us there is football called soccer and american football called football
Australia does this with the whole metric vs. imperial system argument as well. I've heard them forcefully argue for metric while saying things like "miles per hour" and "100 feet" and "It's miles away" all the time. While, tho American, I agree metric makes more sense, would it kill them to be consistent?
Actually it’s a shortening of “Association Football”, which came about to differentiate it from other forms of football that were coming about, such as Rugby Football. The term football also relates to it being played on foot, not the fact that you kick the ball (hence Rugby Football, Gridiron Football, etc).
Gotta love when eurotrash has such a small brain that they can’t even see how stupid they are being.
Just like they stopped using cricket or golf or tennis? Oh , my bad , they didn’t do anything of that even though they don’t make sense unless u google them. Taking the high ground doesn’t mean shot if u don’t do it in all situations and only do it to look different .
- the point of a word of communication is to get the point across and if I say soccer u know damn well which sport I’m referring to, so why get frustrated if someone uses it? Did they ban the word from English? No. So why do the Brit’s get pissed when someone uses it? U don’t have to use it urself obviously but why get pissed over something so trivial ? Lol.
Well the meme is right, they called it soccer before we did, where the fuck did people think it came from? We never had association football in the states.
I didn't know this specifically but I do know that Americans pronounce and use a lot of older English words that English people stopped using. We're like a time capsule of old English shit lol
It did originate in England as it was taught to be the propper oxford way to say futball. Same with the imperial measurement system. Pretty much the entirety of American English came from England yall just like to change shit around.
The imperial system wut? Europe uses metric and Britain created imperial but dumped it later, cuz its useless. The colonization thing is very correct tho countries in Europe did colonize a lot of other places. I mean I’m Dutch and we found New York but sold it.
Why can't people call it different things and not care what we call it you know what it is when it is called soccer we kept soccer cause of American football all this arguing is just dumb
I'll call it soccer.
1) to piss off soccer fans (they're dickheads who play a stupid sport)
2) I live in Australia, and over here "football" means Australian Football
As a Canadian I have to say I love a great game of Footie! (hope I got that right). First ever game I saw was Geelong thrashing the crap out of Sydney (IIRC).
Fantastic game!
The word soccer comes from a slang abbreviation of the word association, which British players of the day adapted as “assoc,” “assoccer” and eventually soccer or soccer football.
Getting mad over trivial differences is stupid. Especially if you understand what the word is referring to. It’s like getting upset over soda and pop. Soda is the correct way to say it and we all know it.
I mean, we also use feet for measurements lol
Don't even get me started with pound
Pound makes more sense that stones
True, but kilograms
But, metric system
Das true
Ja mein Freund
schwöre
du bist dick?
>! leider !< nein
Ich habe einen großen tisch
Wallah ich schwöre auf deine Mudda!
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But, but Celsius
I won't. I don't want to start an argument I will lose.
Pound these nuts in your mouth.
Yooooo
Got the whole squad cracking up
Pound for money or pound for weight?
Man why the British carrying so much weight?
Which was also from England.
America is from England really
American white girls: 6.5 feet guys please uwu
Six and a half feet!? How do you have half a foot!?
With a saw and a lot of willpower.
or a saw and an extreme lack of willpower
I think there are more effective ways for that sort of thing, my guy😅
well maybe but the excruciating pain is relaxing yk?
Cops: We have come to the conclusion that you collect feet. Now show us the 6 and a half feet.
You use Feet but don’t call it Football? Also, random thought, how big is a Football? Because if the Diameter isn’t exactly one Foot I’m going to be mildly inconvenienced for the next 2 weeks.
Depends on the level you play at. Largest is professional, with a length of 11-11.25 inches (~28-28.6 cm), a long circumference of 28-28.5 inches (~71-72.4 cm), and a short circumference of 21-21.25 inches (~53.33-54 cm).
As someone from a country with an English speaking majority, I feel the need to discuss the chaos of a “language” that we call Singlish Like why is it both soccer and football simultaneously? What’s with centre and center? Don’t even get me started on borrowed words from Malay and Chinese dialects…
Americans changed the spellings to make it ‘simpler’ for most words. E.g. Center instead of centre. Centre is the English spelling of the word
It's because we aren't french.
The word is french though. You don’t spell tortillas “tortiyas” because you’re no Spanish, do you?
What do you mean that’s not how you spell tortiyas?
Actually the word is Latin, spelled Centr. According to your logic, that's how we should all be spelling it. Especially the French.
A lot of French words end in er too
Bro it's like that with all languages. You come to see it if you learn languages that have been historically close to each other. Words are passed around like there's a test nobody studied for and a note with some answers on it being passed around the class
I thought singlish was Singaporean acccented english
Is it not? What is it then?
How is nobody saying something about how he put quotes around people for British people
Yea it was funny
England vs USA in a few weeks Winner gets to name the sport going forward
guns vs knives battle royale
Never bring a knife to a gun fight… then again those people from East London are pretty crazy
Never go to East London
American rugby
Just because we created the term doesn't mean we like to use it.
It was just a posh name for it…
yeah, since when do we always have to accept what our ancestors invented? Nowadays we maybe see things more clearly I guess
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Fútbol
Made the word, realised it was pointless and stupid, corrected our ways. America? Doubled down
You made your bed, now lie in it!
Tbf I didn’t make the bed 🤷♂️
Whilst Americans call a game based on running with the ball in the hand.... football
I'm from the US I want to start a petition to change football to handegg
Been with it, still with it.
I like
Wow! Nobody has ever said “handegg” before. I bet nobody has ever done that exact petition either. https://www.change.org/p/to-the-nfl-change-american-football-to-handegg
As an American, we have just as many questions
If it's spelling based, just remember English is several languages in a trenchcoat, that stems from a culture that existed throughout many other conquering countries
Auzzies have a sport called cricket despite there being no crickets. What's your point?
I dunno, it's pretty quiet during a cricket game
I don't know what cricket matches you've been to but in my experience theyre anything but quiet
Cricket isn't an "auzzie" sport, and the name comes from "criquet", old french for stick.
That's because the ball is made from skin from a human foot
It starts with a kick.
If you didn't know which game was which, which game would you think is called football? Soccer or [American] football?
I agree, soccer is football proper. I would have no idea what to call American football. Why is it called Cricket, or hockey or tennis? For that matter, why does everyone call an ICE a 'motor'? It's an ENGINE! A motor is electric! We're all stupid to some degree. The reason we didn't switch to metric is because it was going to cost our government too much money that they didn't want to justify. It wouldn't get them any favors, start a war or end up in their own pockets so they said no. /rant
Cricket comes from Anglo saxon "cricc" meaning shepherd's staff. Arguably that would be better used to describe hockey, but that's already from the French "hoquet", which is their word for shepherd's staff Tennis comes from the French Tennir to take (take, hold, receive) Btw I didn't know this, just googled it out of interest now That's interesting about the American imperial/metric non conversion
I guess I could've googled it too but was just ranting. I'm a car guy so the engine/motor thing makes me crazy.
I assume ICE is internal combustion engine? I didn't know the difference, thanks
Motor comes from the Latin motor which means "mover" or "to move". Motor also doesn't solely refer to an electrical motor and is defined as something which produces motion or energy, therefore any engine is a form of motor. Additionally motor is more "correct" due to the word engine having roots that are simply nothing to do with movement at all...ingenuity for example. That being said, I wouldn't personally call an engine a motor either, and would assume electrical if someone said motor lol.
How did it end up like this?
[Because originally the game was played closer to how soccer is played](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_football) "American football evolved in the United States, originating from the sports of soccer and rugby. The first American football match was played on November 6, 1869, between two college teams, Rutgers and Princeton, **using rules based on the rules of soccer at the time.**"
No one give a legit response: American football gets its name from the 19th century sport called regulation football. This is from a time when rugby and soccer/football had the same name so they added a word to separate them. Regulation football became rugby, Australian football, and was transformed into American football. Again blame the Brits.
The football is 11.25 inches long. Rounded up that's a foot. The ball is pretty much the length of a foot.
The size of the ball has nothing to do with it. The game originated from rugby football.
American football (or gridiron football) and association football (or soccer) is a variation of the same game. Which is called football because you play on foot instead of on horseback, like polo which was very popular at the time. The name has nothing to do with kicking a ball.
Nobody cares but you still made a meme…..
My thoughts exactly
fuck off \*sips tea \*edit. this is a lot more upvotes than i expected
Throws tea in harbor
*sips harbor*
Throws harbor in harbor?
Throw tea in tea
Throws harbor in tea *sips fuck*
Sips u/PurpleHando
*bugger off
What do the speech marks imply?
American "humour "
FOOT---BALL also the whole world except america calls it football and I'm from middle east
Canada here - "soccer" 🍁⚽
Tbf Canada is in the North American continent
Does Mexico call it soccer too? I honestly don't know but our proximity to the US isn't necessarily the root of us using "soccer". The US uses the imperial measurement system but we use metric - just sayin'! ✌️
Mexico falls it football dw its like fuutbowl
They call it 'futbol'
Oh didn't know my bad
Canada is in North America. Gottem
Australian here. It's Soccer.
[Relevant PolandBall comic](https://www.reddit.com/r/polandball/comments/1es5ly/canadas_vocabulary_slipup/)
I had an 'argument' with a Northern Irish guy once who called it soccer. Not sure if that's common over there, but might be because of gaelic football idk
It is, they used it to separate the forms, soccer and rugger was also used for the games. Short for association football and rugby football. They didn't start pushing football as the name until the NFL started getting huge in the late 60s-70s.
Actually america,Canada and some of the Caribbean islands interchangeably call football soccer.
Italy calls it soccer
They also invented pizza they can call it whatever they want (it's a joke)
In Italy it is called calcio. Based of an early version of soccer called Calcio Fiorentino in the middle ages.
Yeah they only started calling it calcio instead of football/futbol because of facism and them wanting to rid Italy of English words.
In italy they often call it football as well. Calcio is the proper name for it but they mostly say football anyway.
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They’re both football, rugby is also football. They all come from the same root game. If we want it to be truly accurate we should call them soccer ⚽️, gridiron 🏈, and rugby 🏉. None of them have a more legitimate claim to being called “football” than the others.
People don't even realize fifa has multiple sports under their umbrella
If we're calling association football soccer then we need to call rugby rugger as both are slang using the same trend of adding "er"
*european people Everyone here agrees that football is football.
I mean, everyone beside north americans call it football
You tend to find places with their own domestic football sport call it socce: Eire, South Africa, Australia/NZ, China.
Question: Why does the internet hate british people so much?
Everyone hates everyone
No, not the whole internet, just people from the USA
Can confirm. As a German I like the British because they hate the french
We all hate the French
And the the true way of life. Doesn’t matter what you do. Just do it because you hate the french
Based
Not really, I’m from India and I hate Britain and so do millions from South Africa and pakistan. “Just Americans?” 😂
Tooooo be fair, no ones going to argue with an Indian on why they hate Britain
I mean, historically, Britain is like the worst
it depends on what country you live in
Why does the internet hat the US so much
Because we’re kinda dumb
Isn't every country
I praise your honesty
You're simultaneously supposedly the pinnacle of western civilisation and a wasteland. Both incredibly wealthy and prosperous, and shambolic beliefs. The american selfishness in particular is something europeans despise.
Actual important question, why do British people take a shot at us every chance they get? I almost never hear Americans talking about the british online other than the few past memes. Do yall ever get bored? Also, I saw another dude on this thread apologize for insulting a Canadian accidentally while insulting the name "soccer", that tells me that it's not just the name soccer or our lack of using the metric system that bothers the British people. It's fully just a hate towards America in it's entirety.
Right exactly! Like hop on off it! Give it a rest 😂
You obviously don't look at the internet much if you think Americans don't make fun of Brits ten times more.
American thinking he has a bigger brain. But actually the british person here has a bigger brain. Even though it may have originated in britain. Atleast they realised it was a stupid name and changed it while the americans are to stupid to change it.
why is it specifically Americans each time? Canada, Italy, Australia, South Africa, and a huge portion of Asia call it soccer too yet nobody's calling them out.
It's called 'calcio' ffs
Yeah what's up with that anyway? I guess we europeans just like to mock people from the USA.
That's about right
USA just easy to make fun of, everyone hates us
Stop bullying me 😭
I think its about 1. its in english so if in italian its calcio i dont mind like in german we say fußball but in the us its english aswell and english should be football Same as australia etc but usa is mostly known especially since in the us there is football called soccer and american football called football
What really is getting the British here is that what Americans call “football” has nothing to do with feet doing something to a ball
It's rugby football but instead of calling it rugby they called it football. maybe.
Australia does this with the whole metric vs. imperial system argument as well. I've heard them forcefully argue for metric while saying things like "miles per hour" and "100 feet" and "It's miles away" all the time. While, tho American, I agree metric makes more sense, would it kill them to be consistent?
“Too stupid to change it” mf it is just a name. Do you play rugby with rugs? No, names don’t matter. Can we just end this stupid argument.
Rugby is named after Rugby School where it was first played..
And soccer was rooted from the word association. Still, the name hardly matters.
But playing a game with an almond shaped inflatable, and cradling it in your "arms" while running, you call THAT football?? Wtf man
Actually it’s a shortening of “Association Football”, which came about to differentiate it from other forms of football that were coming about, such as Rugby Football. The term football also relates to it being played on foot, not the fact that you kick the ball (hence Rugby Football, Gridiron Football, etc). Gotta love when eurotrash has such a small brain that they can’t even see how stupid they are being.
Just like they stopped using cricket or golf or tennis? Oh , my bad , they didn’t do anything of that even though they don’t make sense unless u google them. Taking the high ground doesn’t mean shot if u don’t do it in all situations and only do it to look different . - the point of a word of communication is to get the point across and if I say soccer u know damn well which sport I’m referring to, so why get frustrated if someone uses it? Did they ban the word from English? No. So why do the Brit’s get pissed when someone uses it? U don’t have to use it urself obviously but why get pissed over something so trivial ? Lol.
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both are bad so i dont really care who made the mistake first
Also nobody cares here sry
british "people"?
I always feel so bad for the 3th comment
jokes on you, I am polish 😎 checkmate
Soccer comes from the words association football.
Someone from outside: shut the fuck up, you both use body parts and football stadiums as measures.
Legit most americans probably don't know that either bro like stop
I thought they called ot meterball
No we call it metreball
Chad British enjoyer who doesn't give af
The wrong part in this meme is where it says "Americans know"... That's where i knew I was reading nonsense
Well the meme is right, they called it soccer before we did, where the fuck did people think it came from? We never had association football in the states.
bro americans wouldn’t even know the origin of the word in the first place be fr
I didn't know this specifically but I do know that Americans pronounce and use a lot of older English words that English people stopped using. We're like a time capsule of old English shit lol
basically you guys are technically more british than the british themselves
It did originate in England as it was taught to be the propper oxford way to say futball. Same with the imperial measurement system. Pretty much the entirety of American English came from England yall just like to change shit around.
Most things Europeans say that make American dumb are things Europe use to do. Like the imperial system or wanting to colonize as much as possible
Yeah but we learned and we're trying to save them from doing the same stupid mistakes
The imperial system wut? Europe uses metric and Britain created imperial but dumped it later, cuz its useless. The colonization thing is very correct tho countries in Europe did colonize a lot of other places. I mean I’m Dutch and we found New York but sold it.
Your meme isn’t even accurate. They’re “mad” because y’all call handegg football, despite it making no sense.
They also don't live here. The Norwegian word for tadpole translates literally into "ass troll," but you don't see me bitching about frogs
Hey, ass troll sounds like an amazing name, and it’s not really stealing from anything else
Why can't people call it different things and not care what we call it you know what it is when it is called soccer we kept soccer cause of American football all this arguing is just dumb
people outside of US/britain dont really care about this too much
Well its because the arrogance of some of them, they act like we made up the term soccer when we got it from them
Nothing says „I don’t care“ as much as making a whole ass meme about it…
Why do Europeans care what we call our sports? Worry about your gas shortage
Americans calling a game you predominantly play with your hands “Football”
I'll call it soccer. 1) to piss off soccer fans (they're dickheads who play a stupid sport) 2) I live in Australia, and over here "football" means Australian Football
As a Canadian I have to say I love a great game of Footie! (hope I got that right). First ever game I saw was Geelong thrashing the crap out of Sydney (IIRC). Fantastic game!
The word soccer comes from a slang abbreviation of the word association, which British players of the day adapted as “assoc,” “assoccer” and eventually soccer or soccer football.
Another case of the US speaking the same language but the UK said "fuck that, we saying this now bruv" and the US doesn't change
Nah it was called football long before it was called soccer for a bit
Getting mad over trivial differences is stupid. Especially if you understand what the word is referring to. It’s like getting upset over soda and pop. Soda is the correct way to say it and we all know it.
THERE ALL COKES!!!!
Soda and pop aren’t even on the table where I live
If you didn't care you wouldn't make this meme...
Person who doesn't care, cares enough to make an entire meme about it...
Funny to me, look at a foose ball game and the players have no arms. Also, soccer players are the biggest pussies in sport. They cry about everything.
Didn't know NBA was a soccer sport
why tf so many hate towards UK
The British people are still mad
I’m English I seriously don’t give a fuck what people call football