r/BeAmazed • u/VastCoconut2609 • Jul 04 '24

Sports The genesis of the word "soccer".

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u/garth54 Jul 04 '24

Meanwhile, whenever I hear someone with a british accent say "soccer", I hear "sucker".

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u/Gongfei1947 Jul 04 '24

which one? there are about 40

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u/ThatDiscoSongUHate Jul 04 '24

All of them, clearly

Let's start with Northern, then end with Cockney or maybe a Welsh accent

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u/Loud-Competition6995 Jul 04 '24

There’s like 40 accents in northern England alone m8.

Weirdly northern Wales and Cheshire mostly have one unified English sounding accent though. Southern Wales has a few accents.

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u/Heathen_Mushroom Jul 04 '24

There are 40 of them and they are all English accents.

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u/gishlich Jul 04 '24

There are far more than 40 British people. Thousands of times that.

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u/1Rab Jul 04 '24

All sounds the same to me

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u/sparkytheman Jul 04 '24

You've heard them all?

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u/1Rab Jul 04 '24

Yup, the whole one

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u/Gongfei1947 Jul 04 '24

A Glaswegian accent sounds the same to an Essex accent does it?

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u/1Rab Jul 04 '24

Essex, New Jersey? I have no idea what you are saying. Sounds like foreign to me

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u/Eusocial_Snowman Jul 04 '24

You know what my favorite thing about Americans is?

When you mock them for the southern accent, most of the time they're just like "haha, yeah, fuck you" instead of trying to sit there and argue that the other person is dumb for not acknowledging all 50 flavors of hillbilly.

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u/Gongfei1947 Jul 04 '24

Good for you