• Virual@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    The English were the ones that created the term soccer. It grew in popularity in America as soccer, then eventually fell out of popularity in Britain. In fact, a lot of the differences between words in the US and Britain are that Brits started using a different version of the word and Americans kept using the old one. Not all, but a lot.

    Source: https://time.com/5335799/soccer-word-origin-england/