On 23/01/14 16:05, Brad Figg wrote: > On 01/23/2014 06:54 AM, Evan Dandrea wrote: >> Just to clarify, this is football, not the sport that some of you in >> America play which confusingly bears the same name. >> >> While we're here, it's the pavement, not a sidewalk, you walk under a >> road through a subway but take the tube from Heathrow, and you had >> better line up your knife and fork on your plate when you're done >> eating. >> >> Thanks! >> >> On 23 January 2014 14:36, Evan Dandrea <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Every Monday at noon a few of us play football at a pitch five minutes >>> from the office for our lunch break. If you want to join in on the >>> first day of the sprint, please do let me know as soon as you can. >>> Should be a great way to shake off that jet lag. >>> >>> If you don't own a pair of astro trainers, running shoes will do fine. >>> There are showers in the basement of Bluefin, but you'll need to bring >>> your own towel and soap. >>> >>> Please do share this email on with anyone you think would be >>> interested in attending. >>> >>> Cheers! > > In the early days of the sport among the upper echelons of British society, > the proper term for the sport was “Soccer”. So, do *not* go blaming us > because you folks don't know what you call your own sport, sport. > http://www.etymonline.com states:
1889, socca, later socker (1891), soccer (1895), originally university slang (with jocular formation -er (3)), from a shortened form of Assoc., abbreviation of association in Football Association (as opposed to Rugby football); cf. rugger. An unusual method of formation, but those who did it perhaps shied away from making a name out of the first three letters of Assoc. -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~canonical-ci-engineering Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~canonical-ci-engineering More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
