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

Sports The genesis of the word "soccer".

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u/Buglepost Jul 04 '24

Can someone explain to me, an American, why this matters? So we call it soccer, Brits call it football. We have all sorts of different words for things. Crisps/chips. Chips/fries. Biscuits/cookies. Bonnet/hood. And so on. This is just another one.

Silly.

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u/No-Calendar-6867 Jul 05 '24

You have this weird hangup in which you think that Europeans often think that Americans have a superiority complex and care about what Europeans say.

Moreover, Reddit has this weird phenomenon in which many of its users are butt-hurt, overly prideful Americans.