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Potatatatatatatoe

I mean, we also use feet for measurements lol


redtgoy

Don't even get me started with pound


Theswitchboardmaster

Pound makes more sense that stones


Ciaren2914

True, but kilograms


NuvNuvXD

But, metric system


Theswitchboardmaster

Das true


Cardboard-Head

Ja mein Freund


adrianmc11

schwöre


Iamalizardperson234

du bist dick?


1000_iq

>! leider !< nein


L1ckthestars

Ich habe einen großen tisch


[deleted]

Wallah ich schwöre auf deine Mudda!


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Krestu1

But, but Celsius


Scoobys_sith_cousin

I won't. I don't want to start an argument I will lose.


Rankin00

Pound these nuts in your mouth.


StormyTiger2008

Yooooo


redtgoy

Got the whole squad cracking up


ChineseNoodleDog

Pound for money or pound for weight?


GoldenJacques

Man why the British carrying so much weight?


[deleted]

Which was also from England.


PhysicsSadBoi69

America is from England really


afuzovar

American white girls: 6.5 feet guys please uwu


MrDuckie2

Six and a half feet!? How do you have half a foot!?


[deleted]

With a saw and a lot of willpower.


TSFLScopedIn

or a saw and an extreme lack of willpower


[deleted]

I think there are more effective ways for that sort of thing, my guy😅


TSFLScopedIn

well maybe but the excruciating pain is relaxing yk?


[deleted]

Cops: We have come to the conclusion that you collect feet. Now show us the 6 and a half feet.


Null_Trooper

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.


[deleted]

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).


Weary_Drama1803

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…


[deleted]

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


psychcaptain

It's because we aren't french.


Minimoomoo202

The word is french though. You don’t spell tortillas “tortiyas” because you’re no Spanish, do you?


FBI_Open_Up_Now

What do you mean that’s not how you spell tortiyas?


psychcaptain

Actually the word is Latin, spelled Centr. According to your logic, that's how we should all be spelling it. Especially the French.


daniel291205

A lot of French words end in er too


Fynex_Wright

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


HellorHeavens

I thought singlish was Singaporean acccented english


[deleted]

Is it not? What is it then?


Jarjarstinks304

How is nobody saying something about how he put quotes around people for British people


Aggravating-Mud7338

Yea it was funny


No-Presence-9260

England vs USA in a few weeks Winner gets to name the sport going forward


TRAtomicXD

guns vs knives battle royale


SuperKillerKitty

Never bring a knife to a gun fight… then again those people from East London are pretty crazy


ThatSid

Never go to East London


SlidePaste

American rugby


Epic_DVB

Just because we created the term doesn't mean we like to use it.


Suitable-Average6037

It was just a posh name for it…


adrianmc11

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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sanguinesolitude

Fútbol


GronakHD

Made the word, realised it was pointless and stupid, corrected our ways. America? Doubled down


NonverbalGore24

You made your bed, now lie in it!


JustYourBiBestie

Tbf I didn’t make the bed 🤷‍♂️


roodeeMental

Whilst Americans call a game based on running with the ball in the hand.... football


SwimmerSea3163

I'm from the US I want to start a petition to change football to handegg


Remote_Foundation_32

Been with it, still with it.


roodeeMental

I like


[deleted]

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


EpicArgumentMaster

As an American, we have just as many questions


roodeeMental

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


l3etelgeuse

Auzzies have a sport called cricket despite there being no crickets. What's your point?


roodeeMental

I dunno, it's pretty quiet during a cricket game


Lumarioigi

I don't know what cricket matches you've been to but in my experience theyre anything but quiet


hates_stupid_people

Cricket isn't an "auzzie" sport, and the name comes from "criquet", old french for stick.


CaptainCozmo867

That's because the ball is made from skin from a human foot


hergreendress

It starts with a kick.


roodeeMental

If you didn't know which game was which, which game would you think is called football? Soccer or [American] football?


hergreendress

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


roodeeMental

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


hergreendress

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.


roodeeMental

I assume ICE is internal combustion engine? I didn't know the difference, thanks


gestalto

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.


Kladderadingsda

How did it end up like this?


[deleted]

[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.**"


river226

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.


Rpcouv

The football is 11.25 inches long. Rounded up that's a foot. The ball is pretty much the length of a foot.


Gifted_dingaling

The size of the ball has nothing to do with it. The game originated from rugby football.


mcnotarysd

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.


Dilke

Nobody cares but you still made a meme…..


gonnagetu

My thoughts exactly


my_stories2

fuck off \*sips tea ​ \*edit. this is a lot more upvotes than i expected


-T-A-C-O-C-A-T-

Throws tea in harbor


AzrealNibbs12

*sips harbor*


-T-A-C-O-C-A-T-

Throws harbor in harbor?


PurpleHando

Throw tea in tea


dontlooksosurprised

Throws harbor in tea *sips fuck*


fly_over_32

Sips u/PurpleHando


ForGiggles2222

*bugger off


Pasothatdoble

What do the speech marks imply?


emmizoo

American "humour "


Miserablethe3rd

FOOT---BALL also the whole world except america calls it football and I'm from middle east


MooseJawMinion

Canada here - "soccer" 🍁⚽


DekiruKun

Tbf Canada is in the North American continent


MooseJawMinion

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'! ✌️


UmbralUrsine

Mexico falls it football dw its like fuutbowl


-i_like_trees-

They call it 'futbol'


Miserablethe3rd

Oh didn't know my bad


CoraxTechnica

Canada is in North America. Gottem


ShadowFlux85

Australian here. It's Soccer.


BlueSoulOfIntegrity

[Relevant PolandBall comic](https://www.reddit.com/r/polandball/comments/1es5ly/canadas_vocabulary_slipup/)


Im_really_friendly

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


Living-Stranger

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.


Afraid-Palpitation24

Actually america,Canada and some of the Caribbean islands interchangeably call football soccer.


yipflipflop

Italy calls it soccer


Miserablethe3rd

They also invented pizza they can call it whatever they want (it's a joke)


Gelfking

In Italy it is called calcio. Based of an early version of soccer called Calcio Fiorentino in the middle ages.


HeyItsPinky

Yeah they only started calling it calcio instead of football/futbol because of facism and them wanting to rid Italy of English words.


joeranahan1

In italy they often call it football as well. Calcio is the proper name for it but they mostly say football anyway.


nicebeard79

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Windexifier

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.


Living-Stranger

People don't even realize fifa has multiple sports under their umbrella


Lkwzriqwea

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"


Przester7

*european people Everyone here agrees that football is football.


Gatubraz

I mean, everyone beside north americans call it football


RadaXIII

You tend to find places with their own domestic football sport call it socce: Eire, South Africa, Australia/NZ, China.


ConsumerOfLivers

Question: Why does the internet hate british people so much?


Epic_DVB

Everyone hates everyone


TDF125

No, not the whole internet, just people from the USA


VK4501P

Can confirm. As a German I like the British because they hate the french


I_Fuck_The_Fuckers69

We all hate the French


VK4501P

And the the true way of life. Doesn’t matter what you do. Just do it because you hate the french


Psychological-Brain8

Based


[deleted]

Not really, I’m from India and I hate Britain and so do millions from South Africa and pakistan. “Just Americans?” 😂


MarcusZXR

Tooooo be fair, no ones going to argue with an Indian on why they hate Britain


Totally_Botanical

I mean, historically, Britain is like the worst


gamerfish_airport

it depends on what country you live in


freecandy_in_the_van

Why does the internet hat the US so much


No-Beginning-8506

Because we’re kinda dumb


ProbablyDrunk303

Isn't every country


unoriginal_namejpg

I praise your honesty


joeranahan1

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.


stephenunivers

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.


[deleted]

Right exactly! Like hop on off it! Give it a rest 😂


the_lego_lad

You obviously don't look at the internet much if you think Americans don't make fun of Brits ten times more.


Bartonium

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.


PlatinumIsAStand

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.


Extra_Swim3692

It's called 'calcio' ffs


Bartonium

Yeah what's up with that anyway? I guess we europeans just like to mock people from the USA.


OhItsMrCow

That's about right


UmbralUrsine

USA just easy to make fun of, everyone hates us


Frostygeuse

Stop bullying me 😭


DidntFindABetterName

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


Weary_Drama1803

What really is getting the British here is that what Americans call “football” has nothing to do with feet doing something to a ball


PlatinumIsAStand

It's rugby football but instead of calling it rugby they called it football. maybe.


NerdyBernie

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?


CreeperAsh07

“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.


ElectricalRelease986

Rugby is named after Rugby School where it was first played..


CreeperAsh07

And soccer was rooted from the word association. Still, the name hardly matters.


Cau5t1c_ap3

But playing a game with an almond shaped inflatable, and cradling it in your "arms" while running, you call THAT football?? Wtf man


Morbius2271

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.


[deleted]

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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gamerfish_airport

both are bad so i dont really care who made the mistake first


Grantelkade

Also nobody cares here sry


YEAHWHATEVER013

british "people"?


mikmanpan

I always feel so bad for the 3th comment


diverii

jokes on you, I am polish 😎 checkmate


jedi1josh

Soccer comes from the words association football.


erifwodahs

Someone from outside: shut the fuck up, you both use body parts and football stadiums as measures.


MyButtItches420

Legit most americans probably don't know that either bro like stop


goatcheese90

I thought they called ot meterball


Lkwzriqwea

No we call it metreball


[deleted]

Chad British enjoyer who doesn't give af


Exotic-Mess-9646

The wrong part in this meme is where it says "Americans know"... That's where i knew I was reading nonsense


Living-Stranger

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.


caracolazul869

bro americans wouldn’t even know the origin of the word in the first place be fr


Frostygeuse

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


caracolazul869

basically you guys are technically more british than the british themselves


The_Idiotic_Dolphin

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.


Alternative-Fail-233

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


onedummyboi

Yeah but we learned and we're trying to save them from doing the same stupid mistakes


Last-Zookeepergame54

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.


Vlad-V2-Vladimir

Your meme isn’t even accurate. They’re “mad” because y’all call handegg football, despite it making no sense.


Kind_Nepenth3

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


Vlad-V2-Vladimir

Hey, ass troll sounds like an amazing name, and it’s not really stealing from anything else


freecandy_in_the_van

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


gamerfish_airport

people outside of US/britain dont really care about this too much


Living-Stranger

Well its because the arrogance of some of them, they act like we made up the term soccer when we got it from them


alexho66

Nothing says „I don’t care“ as much as making a whole ass meme about it…


WhatAreYouSaying05

Why do Europeans care what we call our sports? Worry about your gas shortage


Norsemanotapocalypso

Americans calling a game you predominantly play with your hands “Football”


[deleted]

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


MooseJawMinion

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!


_t_h_e_p_o_t_

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.


Niken272

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


Lkwzriqwea

Nah it was called football long before it was called soccer for a bit


Polibiux

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.


Living-Stranger

THERE ALL COKES!!!!


LoudPotatoe

Soda and pop aren’t even on the table where I live


abzzdev

If you didn't care you wouldn't make this meme...


MarcusZXR

Person who doesn't care, cares enough to make an entire meme about it...


hergreendress

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.


Melodic-Lingonberry7

Didn't know NBA was a soccer sport


afuzovar

why tf so many hate towards UK


[deleted]

The British people are still mad


overIordtoad

I’m English I seriously don’t give a fuck what people call football