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ParanoidObsessive posted...

Might want to reread what I wrote there and think about it for a bit.

Ohhhhhh. Gotcha!

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Well, all right, that was a lie. I'm still not quite sure what you were getting at. Me, I'm just trying to correct the fuzzy impression that many Americans seem to have gotten that a lot of us Brits call it "soccer". We invented the word all right, but it was never popular in everyday usage.

I did look up the origin of the word though, and I feel slightly more enlightened than I did about ten minutes ago. I suppose we should be grateful that it was pronounced "socker" rather than "soasher".