I like how a silly 19th-century English schoolyard trend gave us "soccer" as a cute short form of "association football". And I like how the word is so catchy that this adorable Victorian slang managed to become a semi-official name for the sport.
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I like how a silly 19th-century English schoolyard trend gave us "soccer" as a cute short form of "association football". And I like how the word is so catchy that this adorable Victorian slang managed to become a semi-official name for the sport.