The word "soccer" was first used in England in the 19th century to distinguish between different types of football games. At the time, there were several different versions of football being played, including rugby football and association football (what is now known as soccer). In the 1860s, the Football Association was established in England to standardise the rules of association football, which was becoming increasingly popular. To distinguish this sport from other types of football, the abbreviation "assoc" was used, and the game was referred to as "association football." Over time, the term "assoc" evolved into "soccer." This term was commonly used in England until the mid-20th century, when it began to fall out of favor in favor of the term "football."
@@t2d748Nah most native English-speakers call it soccer.The Pommies are the exception. In Aus and NZ its also known as 'poofterball' or 'dive-grass' alongside 'soccer'
@@t2d748"expect yanks" no, all your former colonies that still use your language call it soccer. Because that is what it was called then. We didn't change the name.
I’m Canadian and I live in Canada. ITS FOOTBALL, not soccer. There’s American football and REAL football, where you kick it more than five times per game.
I grew up in Austria (Europe), so I obviously learned the British way. When my cousin from Canada came for a visit, we had a conversation about football. Turns out we both talked about two different sport types.
@@jeanrose1627 Not all Americans are completely ignorant. There are many Americans out there that do have knowledge beyond Hollywood and the Kardashians.
The English made up the word soccer and were the first to use it, then decided to go back to football when they got peer pressured. America and France don’t care about getting bullied. We will continue to call it soccer. We aren’t children.
I think we need to get back to the roots of the sport: shorten Association Football to “Assball.” And all of us Americans can be like “Hey it makes more sense! We’re just honoring your traditional name!”
Upper class English people made the name. The game always belonged to the working class, the little guy, therefore soccer never caught on. It's a wonderful show of how much the upper class can try all they like but you can't take something so beautiful from the people.
@@AaroInTheKnee if you want to be technical, mob football was an extremely violent and environmentally destructive game (mainly people's houses) made by the people, while association football was made by the upper class (with inspiration from mob football) who then shared it with the people. For once the rich didn't take, they actually gave.
Fun fact, the Brits created the term "soccer" long ago but I guess they forgot and the public just started going with the term football cus it made sense and they stuck with it.
There used to be a TV show in the early hours showing football from around the world called Football, Futbol, Voetbal... your comment reminded me of that.
@@purothefur No, no, you seem to be mistaken. I put a comment on a public platform in reference to the claim made in the video and you responded as though I was speaking to you and used a joke that was not only unfunny but just used entirely wrong.
It is like old movie English accent it is good if he is playing it up for laughs but it sounds nothing like how actual English accent people sounds however
Soccer and football, interestingly enough, are originally British terms, when rugby became a more organized sport it was called Rugby Football (with the "football" half adopted for rugby-adjacent American football) and was differentiated from Association Football, which eventually was shorted to "soccer" in common slang
USA: "Soccer" Almost the rest of the world: **confused in football** Edit: Since there are a few well-known countries who call the sport soccer like Americans, I have written "Almost" before "the rest of the world". Just a small correction
Fun fact. The word Soccer was created by the British at the University of Oxford to distinguish it from rugby. Americans did not invent the word, they just ran with it.
To me "soccer" still sounds more old-timey English than anything. "Oi mate wonna play some soccer? Bit o' the ol' kickabowt? Crikey blimey spiffing etc"
The British actually invented the word "soccer" and it was carried over to the United States. It was created from the "Association of Football", first being called assocer (later dropping the a and s through natural language progression). However, the word fell out of use because dictionaries refused to acknowledge it as a real word. So the word "football" was used, however, the United States dictionaries never adopted this.
@@TheSarahskaninchen Sure, the sport was probably originally called football, however, the slang term that became widely accepted was soccer. The point of this tidbit was to show that the British created the word soccer, not debate which came first lol.
@@Alex-mo6yb yep they created the Word but you claimed that it was the original Word for the term that they then ignored for calling it Football, which doesnt make sense. Edit: i am saying that you claimed that because you said that they "switched from soccer to Football". Because it was Football First, then someone wanted to call it soccer but that didnt Work out and they stayed with the original Name Football. But the americans then decided to Take the Word soccer and it succeded there in the US. But the original Name for the Sport is still Football.
It was "Association Football" in England, where some college lads liked shortening names and sticking an "-er" on the end. "Footer" was one result, "soccer" was another. The pronunciation of nickname changed as it traveled.
Hey would you please do a segment on strange English groups like a “clowder of cats” “murder of crows” and a “committee of vultures “ for French and Spanish?
At least they came back to their senses, US just decided to keep it while also giving it to a sport where you kick the ball like 5 times in the whole game.
It originally came from higher class brits who would give nicknames to eachother with 'er' at the end like J. R Tolkien was famously called 'Tolkers' so when Football became big it was called 'Association Football' so the higher class just called it 'Assoccer' and then it transformed into 'Soccer'
I was about to say the same thing the uk adopted the word then the us did the the uk switched to football I'm from the us and football makes more sense than siccer
In the late 19th century, Soccer was originally a British term for "Association Football," which was then evolved into the slang term soccer; some attribute it to students playing the game at Oxford for this change. It was also common to add 'er' to the ends of words associated with sports which was a particularly British affectation. As the sport continued to evolve over the course of the 20th century football would come to be recognized as the main term to refer to Association Football. But in places like the US and Australia which had other forms of sports that dealt with kicking a ball soccer remained the term of art.
Yep! Most people think that other forms of football somehow evolved from British football, but there have been multiple forms of the game (most of which involved both hands and feet) for almost 200 years... Football 🏈 stuck in the USA, Australia, and even parts of Britain (that being said imo football should absolutely refer to ⚽😂)
For those interested: The real reason American football is just called "football" is cause it was made at a time when most sports were played on horseback. So it's referring to the fact you played it running with your feet! Hence football. The official name for what Europeans (minus the Irish) call football is actually association football, and so north Americans would refer to it as soc football and eventually soccer. The Irish also call it soccer as they have a much older type of football that most people outside of Ireland call Gaelic or Irish football Edit: correction, calling it soccer started out in Britain, soccer and football were virtually interchangeable until just after ww2
One small correction. The English also called it soc football as well for a time. That is why Americans call it such. As that was still the common name for it when it was introduced to North America. It wasn't reffered to as association football untill it started to gain a more organized form of play. But other than that, spot on mate! 👍👍
Sorry to burst your bubble but this is bullshit 🤦🏻♀️ “soccer” and rugby were different branches of the same sport. One was officially called Association Football and the other was officially called Rugby Football. Rugby and American Football branched off from one another and American Football became Gridiron Football. Rugby dropped the Football and Football dropped the Gridiron. Football Association dropped the Association and called it a day. It was never officially called soccer in Britain. It was rich people calling it that as a nickname. The lower classes always called it Association Football or just Football. Do some research next time 🙄
@@laualbert1740 and Rugby is the short form of Rugby Football, because 2 schools invented a game they both called football, so they gave them different subtypes of football. And then the US claimed to make Rugby Football, and made it really capitalist centric. Which is a very US approach to things 😬
Fun fact american football is called Gridiron football after the field you play on. American football is a mix of USA and Canadian rules of Gridiron. So technically calling it football in usa is wrong as it is American Football or Gridiron football.
@@gamoviestudios1388 I know y'all have your own Football but you said *Australia with their own Football* and I was like theirs is Rugby not Football that's what I was tryna say
@@gamoviestudios1388 I mean our country's Rugby Team has surely played Against Australia's Rugby Team and we've never ever heard Australian Football it's just Rugby
The irony is that the word "soccer" originated in Britain. It comes from "Association football" as opposed to "rugby football." Soccer was called "Assoccer" before it was shortened further.
@@prodbyomen4581 British originally called the game Soccer and the Americans called it soccer from them. Then the British just changed and the Americans didn't.
No. Yes but no. By your own logic and the definition you set here. American football would have its own nickname. And "rugby football" - aka ruggy and association football - assoccer - soccer. Both Are by definition football. Honestly in more ways than the American football. In rugby you can kick the ball upwards to advance on the field and can only throw it backwards. So... More defined as using the foot i guess.
Fun fact, soccer comes from Association football. It was actually the British who insisted on that other people should call it soccer. Now people think it's the other way around. That Americans stole the word or something. 😂
I remember my sister crying in first grade or kindergarten about the fact that football wasn't with her feet, it was with her hands. and this was at school during an activity for an after-school we took together
It would not make sense to call American rugby "Football", since it is not played with the feet, instead Football is a sport to be played with the feet.
@@destyne1902the origin of the name football has to do with playing the game on your feet as opposed to on a horse. Originally there were multiple sports called football (associated football(soccer), rugby football, and gridiron football(American football). Over time the dominate sport in a country would just go by the name football. That is why what is called football in the UK is usually called soccer in its former colonies as other forms of football were more dominate.
I believe "football" refers to sports in which you run on your feet instead of riding a horse. Hence, both are equally football, but having a word to distinguish the two in a region where a different football is more common is very nice.
The term "soccer" was actually invented by the English since the official name for the sport is Association Football. So in Oxford they took the soc from "Association."
Yeah but no one who didn't keep there school tie ever called it that ever. Trust me at least they didn't in the 1930s when you guys defamed it. Honest why cant you lot just admit wasn't yours to change, we don't expect you to change the name at this point. What everyone who offers this particular platitude was that the reason the toffs started calling it soccer was to differentiate between rugby football (rugger) and association football. So you guys actually mugged of two games.
@@boghundso negative, for what? He has a good British accent as American. You don't need to sour the mood because you live in the most depressing country on earth
The term soccer actually comes from britain, because so many sports had the name football, when it became an official asSOCiation, in order to specify which sport they were talking about they would use soccer to distinguish the difference. But then the other football sports got new names and soccer went back to football but the US kept the name soccer
@@ExplodingRaven The sport itself actually a derivative of rugby football. Back in the day the name was changed to ‘American football’ to distinguish it from traditional rugby football, but when soccer started being called the standard ‘football’ rugby just started being called rugby and ‘American football’ just never changed its name because we already had the term soccer. It makes complete sense within context.
Yeah, but when it became international the Brits joined in Calling it Football, cause other countries did it. But, Some English speaking countries kept the name because we didn't care
Right! UK had Rugby football and Association football. At one point they'd both dropped the football party of name. Across the pond, rugby was morphing into American football, with the biggest change being admission of the forward (hand) pass. Rugby had since declined in popularity and Soccer has changed back into football in the UK to more closely match their European and global counterparts. American football remains the more popular and lucrative form in the US, though there's potential for that to change very quickly as younger generations take the cultural and political helm.
The funny thing about this is that the English came up with the word Soccer in the 1800s, but then stopped using it once it had caught on elsewhere: "Linguistically creative students at the University of Oxford in the 1880s distinguished between the sports of “rugger” (rugby football) and “assoccer” (association football). The latter term was further shortened to “soccer” (sometimes spelled “socker”), and the name quickly spread beyond the campus."
I love how everybody glasses over the fact that England invented the word Soccer 😂 Edit: guys English is not my first language so when I typed it in on my keyboard instead glosses it auto corrected to glasses 😂
Why is every comment this, is this like common knowledge that everyone thinks isn’t common knowledge while also having people not know it. Or are people copy and pasting other peoples comments for likes
British Empire- Tell colonies to use imperial system and call it soccer - Disband British Empire and switch to metric and call it football - laugh at colonies- MWAHAHAHA the plan all along!
Actually, the UK is the first to call it soccer.. It's the abbreviation of Associate Football, simce it's the full name of europe Football.. But later on the UK just call it football and the US just stuck with soccer
I didn't know Australia had their own type of football. I haven't searched it up yet, but I'm guessing it involves koalas and kangaroos. Please tell me I'm close. It feels so right.
What annoys me is that people use the argument that the word "soccer" was invented in the UK, and therefore it's right. Ok, most words in the English language exported to other Anglophone countries came from the UK. So what? Doesn't mean that it's right to use the word soccer, as it's ONLY applicable to association football. If you go to a random field, set up goalposts and kick a ball around with your friends, you're playing football, but NOT soccer. Just use the common word for the whole sport, "football", that is correct 100% of the time you use it.
The word "soccer," which is believed to have originated in Britain some 200 years ago, comes from the official name of the sport, "association football." As other versions of the game evolved to include Rugby Football, it is believed the Brits adopted colloquialisms to distinguish each game. "The rugby football game was shortened to 'rugger,' a term recognized in British English to the present day, and the association football game was, plausibly, shortened to 'soccer'" Szymanski writes. (Apparently ending words in "er" was a fad back then.) Gradually, the term "soccer" gained popularity in the U.S. to distinguish the sport from American football. By the 1980s, the Brits began to part with the term, apparently, because it had become too "American."
@@stphilomena911 but the thing is FC stands for “Football Club” so, if the americans call the sport “soccer” why do they put FC in the name of the clubs (instead of, for exemple, SC)
Ok, everyone is already saying that “soccer” is actually a British term, but the Brits we’re using soccer and football interchangeably into as late as the 1980s where they started using “football” because “soccer” was becoming so American, they wanted to cut any association with the word
@@dhriti4001 we made the word but now those filthy commoners are using it so we're gonna use a different word and make fun of them for using that one. That's Britain's thing, not USA's
@@teamcybr8375 well i don't mean just that it's basically everything thing usa does to using farenhite, pounds, date format, and all that stuff while the rest of the world uses the same. Hope you get what I mean, usa is basically the quirky not like the other girls country and there are people saying the same thing in the comments too 😂
@@dhriti4001 We use Fahrenheit because it's a more convenient 0-100 range for daily use than celsius. I agree on the rest of the metric system. We should use it. We write our dates the same way a calendar is laid out.
The way he nails every single accent will never not amaze me
"Will never cease to amaze me" I think it's more natural. 😁
@@Ryosuke1208 Yeah I know, I was sort of memeing xD Thx tho
@@Ryosuke1208 It's colloquialism. Not as grammatically unusual as you pretend it is.
@@trishasurangana2278 Yeah, well in my case I've never heard it before.
I know right?? Same! It’s really amazing!
Everyone else: "it's football! No! Its soccer!"
Me: "futbol"
Lmao
Futbol and football are the same word.
The difference is we use a different language
Laughs in arabic*
@@alejandra2 portuguese
Forget the accents, dude's hat game is on point!
The word "soccer" was first used in England in the 19th century to distinguish between different types of football games. At the time, there were several different versions of football being played, including rugby football and association football (what is now known as soccer).
In the 1860s, the Football Association was established in England to standardise the rules of association football, which was becoming increasingly popular. To distinguish this sport from other types of football, the abbreviation "assoc" was used, and the game was referred to as "association football."
Over time, the term "assoc" evolved into "soccer." This term was commonly used in England until the mid-20th century, when it began to fall out of favor in favor of the term "football."
It's still known as association football to this day. Always has been, probably always will be. Soccer is just a nickname noone except for yanks use.
@@t2d748Nah most native English-speakers call it soccer.The Pommies are the exception. In Aus and NZ its also known as 'poofterball' or 'dive-grass' alongside 'soccer'
@@genericinternetmale14 they're all nicknames mate. It's still association football.
@@t2d748you said no one but yanks. But it's more like everyone but the English.
@@t2d748"expect yanks" no, all your former colonies that still use your language call it soccer. Because that is what it was called then. We didn't change the name.
USA is the definition for “I’m not like the other girl”😌✋🏾
I agree and I am from the USA
PERIOD *T*
Frrr 😂😂😂😂
different culture different tastes.
Usa called it soccer because of UK. There were plenty of sports called football
What’s funny is that soccer was actually an abbreviation of a word from the UK
Yeah it's an abbreviation of association still doesn't change the fact that everyone else in the world calls it football with some exceptions
@@Themanwitmotion yeah, when my friend said 'football's I was like 'what..?' and felt like I was playing a COMPLETELY different game 🤣
I literally just commented this lol
@@Themanwitmotion i mean the inventors of the game brought it to America and gave us the name. We're just keeping it original.
@@eDumke87 idk about original
I’m Canadian and I live in Canada. ITS FOOTBALL, not soccer. There’s American football and REAL football, where you kick it more than five times per game.
But you use hands foot head and chest in soccer!
Body Ball?
Agrred
@@Rob-ww6ncyou can't play with your hands, and you mainly kick it so..
Soccer
I’m Canadian and live in Canada and everyone calls it soccer for me
"Soccer for sucker"
Hilarious like always ❤
I grew up in Austria (Europe), so I obviously learned the British way. When my cousin from Canada came for a visit, we had a conversation about football. Turns out we both talked about two different sport types.
Lol
☠️💀
I love how you mention austria is in Europe as only an american wouldn't know where it is 🤣
@@jeanrose1627 Not all Americans are completely ignorant. There are many Americans out there that do have knowledge beyond Hollywood and the Kardashians.
@@jeanrose1627 "muh Americans stoopid"
But when football was a thing, America didn’t “already have a sport called football” as that was made years after
Its a joke
Yes, but it's so true
@@Llamu we know. Nothing wrong with a man spitting facts
@@fightme4136 yeah
Nope nope nope! American Football is MUCH older than kickaballfalldowncry.
your sure that won’t upset anybody 😂 i’m dying
Same
My classmate will beat me up for saying soccer bc she is in the “football” varsity
Same
That accents 100x better than any other I’ve heard by an American
As an Aussie, this is the first argument that had me nodding along and forgetting which side I was on
As an aussie I just play afl
@@lozkee4243 yeah there's soccer, US football, afl and also rugby. Like why are there so many?
@@isabellach AFL is a pretty much purely Australian thing. It legit stand for Australian Football League. Idk bought the others tho.
SAME HAHAHAHA i usually say footy/football for afl and soccer for ⚽
So you admit to being biased every time except once in your life. Great. Please don’t vote; especially if you voted for the current government in Aus.
It's "football" and that's a fact ✨
"Soccer, yeah, I'm sure that won't upset anybody" 😂 Class hahaha
😂
The English made up the word soccer and were the first to use it, then decided to go back to football when they got peer pressured. America and France don’t care about getting bullied. We will continue to call it soccer. We aren’t children.
@@skyskynomnom4674 Cool could you give me a Wikipedia article or something.
@Michael Gia Huy Nguyen at what point did they express how the French address the sport?
@@melkormorgothbauglir.4848 and here you go ya lazy bastard.time.com/5335799/soccer-word-origin-england/
Brooo do more UK Vs Us lolll this is the funnies one yettt
"The ball looks like a foot" 😂😂😂😂
Ironically the word "soccer" was invented by the Brits and been around for while. More bizarre, the word soccer derives from the word "association".
association football
I think we need to get back to the roots of the sport: shorten Association Football to “Assball.” And all of us Americans can be like “Hey it makes more sense! We’re just honoring your traditional name!”
@@TakaComics You americans already invented Assball though, it's covered in Hustler and Playboy.
Upper class English people made the name. The game always belonged to the working class, the little guy, therefore soccer never caught on. It's a wonderful show of how much the upper class can try all they like but you can't take something so beautiful from the people.
@@AaroInTheKnee if you want to be technical, mob football was an extremely violent and environmentally destructive game (mainly people's houses) made by the people, while association football was made by the upper class (with inspiration from mob football) who then shared it with the people. For once the rich didn't take, they actually gave.
Fun fact, the Brits created the term "soccer" long ago but I guess they forgot and the public just started going with the term football cus it made sense and they stuck with it.
Beat me to it.👍
source?
🧢
@@mistuyy Google
Yup. Came from "asoccer" which was a nickname for the full name "association football"
Meanwhile Italians: Calcio!
Piemonte calcio
Bergamo Calcio 😂
It means kick so it makes sense soccer is just a stupid made up word
@@DumbBunny5328 It comes from an abbreviation of Association (Football) which was coined in the UK, but we realised quite early it was shit.
Your English accent is a pretty good version of an American doing an Australian accent.
Holy shit this comment is so true.
Ikr!
Every Country:
"Futebol"
"Futeball"
"Footbol"
"Football"
"Fußball"
US being the strange kid:
"Soccer"
Yea same with every Finnish word is weird
Canada also says soccer unfortunately. I am half Canadian, half Colombian but I only say futbol.
We Czechs call it fotbal
German:
Fussball
@@wollfixx Italy with kick which is Calcio
Spanish: “uh yes, I like UK’s idea. So we will call it “fútbol”.
O balonpié 😁
There used to be a TV show in the early hours showing football from around the world called Football, Futbol, Voetbal... your comment reminded me of that.
And then french came along and had the marvellous idea of calling it “foot”
@@godricktheminecrafted3113 wait really? 😂
@@electricairways
Je joue au foot
I play football
Australian football has entered the chat
Aussie rules football?
@@Rob-ww6nc yeah mate
Never let them know your next move: Australia
*That moment when England created and recognized soccer as a name for it until 1970*
I misplaced my memory of when I asked, my apologies
@@purothefur Hm thats weird, I don’t remember asking your opinion of my comment which wasn’t directed to you.
@@JebemTiZivot you placed a comment on a public space and expected people not to respond? Bold, but stupid
@@purothefur No, no, you seem to be mistaken. I put a comment on a public platform in reference to the claim made in the video and you responded as though I was speaking to you and used a joke that was not only unfunny but just used entirely wrong.
@@purothefur you also fail to recognize the fact that no one asked for you to say shit either
Me being British and hearing that perfect accent
👌
It's terrible
It is like old movie English accent it is good if he is playing it up for laughs but it sounds nothing like how actual English accent people sounds however
im british and from scottland and that accent was amazing
@@antonbalfe6349 It's rare, but some people do sound like that. Richard Dawkins comes to mind.
@@DerekDerekDerekDerekDerekDerek it’s not that bad
Soccer and football, interestingly enough, are originally British terms, when rugby became a more organized sport it was called Rugby Football (with the "football" half adopted for rugby-adjacent American football) and was differentiated from Association Football, which eventually was shorted to "soccer" in common slang
the english accent sounds so australiannnnn 🤣
Honestly
This guy is so underrated
He didn’t do his research but it’s still hilarious so I agree
@@kiterina8621 isn't it just a joke though? not a historical tik tok
@@hel2727 Yeah ig so lol
Yes he is tho.
“Cuz they wear high SOCKS!”
USA: "Soccer"
Almost the rest of the world: **confused in football**
Edit: Since there are a few well-known countries who call the sport soccer like Americans, I have written "Almost" before "the rest of the world". Just a small correction
Its soccer in Ireland too, cause we have a sport called Gaelic football.
Not in Australia
@@thedarklightskin yeah but you’re also upside down so you don’t count XD
@@jaymaguire5024 see because us Welsh Celt our language we call it Pêl droed
@@Sparrowash97 that's cool its peil gaelach in Irish. Similar in that way.
The joker voice at the end was spot on 👌
i dont know why but i love uk’s hat
Fun fact. The word Soccer was created by the British at the University of Oxford to distinguish it from rugby. Americans did not invent the word, they just ran with it.
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To me "soccer" still sounds more old-timey English than anything. "Oi mate wonna play some soccer? Bit o' the ol' kickabowt? Crikey blimey spiffing etc"
@@PiousMoltar bros spitting bars 💀
To be honest, americans invented nothing anyway...
Yet another instance of Americans following the common pronunciation, and then the Brits changing to be different 😂
The British actually invented the word "soccer" and it was carried over to the United States. It was created from the "Association of Football", first being called assocer (later dropping the a and s through natural language progression). However, the word fell out of use because dictionaries refused to acknowledge it as a real word. So the word "football" was used, however, the United States dictionaries never adopted this.
So the Word Football was continued to be used, you mean?
@@TheSarahskaninchen yes, after the Brits switched from soccer to football they continued to use football.
@@Alex-mo6yb when soccer comes from association of Football then it was called Football First lol
@@TheSarahskaninchen Sure, the sport was probably originally called football, however, the slang term that became widely accepted was soccer. The point of this tidbit was to show that the British created the word soccer, not debate which came first lol.
@@Alex-mo6yb yep they created the Word but you claimed that it was the original Word for the term that they then ignored for calling it Football, which doesnt make sense.
Edit: i am saying that you claimed that because you said that they "switched from soccer to Football".
Because it was Football First, then someone wanted to call it soccer but that didnt Work out and they stayed with the original Name Football. But the americans then decided to Take the Word soccer and it succeded there in the US. But the original Name for the Sport is still Football.
It was "Association Football" in England, where some college lads liked shortening names and sticking an "-er" on the end. "Footer" was one result, "soccer" was another. The pronunciation of nickname changed as it traveled.
Hey would you please do a segment on strange English groups like a “clowder of cats” “murder of crows” and a “committee of vultures “ for French and Spanish?
That awkward moment when you learn the UK came up with the word "soccer"
And it was also a bunch of upperclass guys...
I was thinking about writing the comment but wanted to check to make sure nobody had already brought it upn
@@mesaprime4368
Do you bruh! Pretty sure 100s did it before me... hardly the most original thought in life
@@tumatauenga6433 -_-
At least they came back to their senses, US just decided to keep it while also giving it to a sport where you kick the ball like 5 times in the whole game.
It originally came from higher class brits who would give nicknames to eachother with 'er' at the end like J. R Tolkien was famously called 'Tolkers' so when Football became big it was called 'Association Football' so the higher class just called it 'Assoccer' and then it transformed into 'Soccer'
Cap
imagine being named "nigg" in England 🥴
@@tonymaw6180 look it up
@@tonymaw6180 you know, google is a thing. Look it up. Its legit
I know that from Vsauce lol
"Cause they were high socks soCcErR"😂
That accent was actually really good!
"Why don't you just call it handball?"
"Oh, we uh, already have a sport called that"
Handegg bcause the ball looks like a egg
@@s-a-n-d-a9012 explain
They have American Handball as well...
No we don't
@@1notredamefightingirishfan12 apparently there is a sport called that
Fun fact: the term Soccer originated in the U.K.. People liked "___er" type words cause they were flashy. The term AsSOCiation Football became SOCcer!
Your English teacher is proud of you
Unless you where that good that she never caught your plagiarism
Yes asockiation is how you pronounce it
I was about to say the same thing the uk adopted the word then the us did the the uk switched to football I'm from the us and football makes more sense than siccer
@@aksunonair it's weird but it's true lol
That british accent was so authentic my gosh
“shin guards”😂💀
In the late 19th century, Soccer was originally a British term for "Association Football," which was then evolved into the slang term soccer; some attribute it to students playing the game at Oxford for this change. It was also common to add 'er' to the ends of words associated with sports which was a particularly British affectation. As the sport continued to evolve over the course of the 20th century football would come to be recognized as the main term to refer to Association Football. But in places like the US and Australia which had other forms of sports that dealt with kicking a ball soccer remained the term of art.
I hadn't read your comment and I wrote mine, relating the same history of the name. Like minds...
Yep! Most people think that other forms of football somehow evolved from British football, but there have been multiple forms of the game (most of which involved both hands and feet) for almost 200 years... Football 🏈 stuck in the USA, Australia, and even parts of Britain (that being said imo football should absolutely refer to ⚽😂)
I came here to say this. Thank you for being the nerd we needed.
And originally "football" referred to any ball sport played on foot, as opposed to on horseback
Knew I wouldn't have to go far before I saw the inevitable history lesson :-D
For those interested:
The real reason American football is just called "football" is cause it was made at a time when most sports were played on horseback. So it's referring to the fact you played it running with your feet! Hence football. The official name for what Europeans (minus the Irish) call football is actually association football, and so north Americans would refer to it as soc football and eventually soccer. The Irish also call it soccer as they have a much older type of football that most people outside of Ireland call Gaelic or Irish football
Edit: correction, calling it soccer started out in Britain, soccer and football were virtually interchangeable until just after ww2
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One small correction. The English also called it soc football as well for a time. That is why Americans call it such. As that was still the common name for it when it was introduced to North America. It wasn't reffered to as association football untill it started to gain a more organized form of play.
But other than that, spot on mate! 👍👍
@@TurtleDude05 Ah thanks! Always nice to learn something new!
Sorry to burst your bubble but this is bullshit 🤦🏻♀️ “soccer” and rugby were different branches of the same sport. One was officially called Association Football and the other was officially called Rugby Football. Rugby and American Football branched off from one another and American Football became Gridiron Football. Rugby dropped the Football and Football dropped the Gridiron. Football Association dropped the Association and called it a day. It was never officially called soccer in Britain. It was rich people calling it that as a nickname. The lower classes always called it Association Football or just Football. Do some research next time 🙄
@@kiterina8621 your reading comprehension is terrible. I don't even see how your reply disagrees with the comment
Not only accent but he even acts like the typical 90’s American😂
The British accent is perfect
why american football is called football when you don’t play it with your feet really...
Because their egg is a foot (~30cm) long. Why would you use the metric system anyway, right?
@@doofnuss6 Whatever. Americans use the football_field_olympic_pool_empire_state_building system
@@smoker_joe you forgot to put "bald eagle" in there
Let's admit it, "handegg" isn't as catchy
@@diogodavid3557 but it IS more realistic. And not as annoying for football because it wouldn't need to be renamed
"And the ball also kinda looks like a foot"
I actually laughed out loud 😭💀
Because It doesn't look like a foot
Because foots are oval-shaped.
ITS CALLED SOCCER ⚽️
@@Goz969 1 foots isn’t a word 2nd FEET ARE NOT OVAL SHAPED
@@shakhriyor5557 It looks like a missile.
The insane over-confidence is on point...
as an American i can confirm that most soccer fans (including me) just call it football and American football to avoid confusion of the sports
As an American I’m calling complete bull shit not one American I’ve ever met has called soccer football
"The Americans wear really rugged outfits so that's why we call it rugby"
-U.K
It's actually called Rugby because it was invented in a town called Rugby in the midlands in England.
What are you talking about? Americans don't play rugby
@@BS-se4yg no, their so-called “American football” is actually American rugby
@@laualbert1740 and Rugby is the short form of Rugby Football, because 2 schools invented a game they both called football, so they gave them different subtypes of football. And then the US claimed to make Rugby Football, and made it really capitalist centric. Which is a very US approach to things 😬
Rugby and American football are actually pretty different
Fun fact, it actually comes from the full name "association football" being shortened to "assoc," then changed to "socca," then "soccer"
The more you know ❇️
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Oh OK is the worst thing ever
@@derdenni6780 whoat
Fun fact american football is called Gridiron football after the field you play on.
American football is a mix of USA and Canadian rules of Gridiron.
So technically calling it football in usa is wrong as it is American Football or Gridiron football.
That attitude of the usa one 😅👌👌 perfectly acted with all the details
Nothing like watching field fairies kick around a ball for a few hours with a 0 -0 score. Then they flop all over the ground to get more time.
Me: what is soccer???
My American friend: its a sport all about kicking a ball and pretending to be hurt.
Accuratr
LMFAO
That's right
@alexandra lol
Neymar noise
Australia with their own football again: hEY GUYS-
I think it's called Rugby not Football
@@Jacel_Varela no thats what we call american football. We have our own version.
@@gamoviestudios1388 I know y'all have your own Football but you said *Australia with their own Football* and I was like theirs is Rugby not Football that's what I was tryna say
@@Jacel_Varela wait hang on is it?
@@gamoviestudios1388 I mean our country's Rugby Team has surely played Against Australia's Rugby Team and we've never ever heard Australian Football it's just Rugby
He is good in multiple personalities! Amazing ! And the humor... Hahahaha
Should do a Why so serious impression
The irony is that the word "soccer" originated in Britain. It comes from "Association football" as opposed to "rugby football." Soccer was called "Assoccer" before it was shortened further.
What's the irony?... you're talking about the name of the association vs the name of the game.. doesn't that make the word more deranged
Nah... High socks it is!
Ok mister Korea man
@@prodbyomen4581 British originally called the game Soccer and the Americans called it soccer from them. Then the British just changed and the Americans didn't.
No. Yes but no. By your own logic and the definition you set here. American football would have its own nickname. And "rugby football" - aka ruggy and association football - assoccer - soccer. Both Are by definition football. Honestly in more ways than the American football. In rugby you can kick the ball upwards to advance on the field and can only throw it backwards. So... More defined as using the foot i guess.
That British accent genuinely sounds super authentic
No it doesn't though
Yea it does
Its a bit over the top but sure.
it sounded australian to me idk
It's ok.
The fact that people hate the name Soccer, even though it sounds really cool genuinely surprises me.
You should try Australia AFL
Not enough people realize he does EVERY accent in this. It's incredible
The uk accent is abut outdated but I love his content
He? You mean they, don't you?
@@donrobertson4940 it's the same guy recording every caracter
@@leandropg5072 r/whooooooosh
@@dis222 OH YE SORRY I FELT FOR IT :/
I died when he said “ cause you know they wear high socks, so ✨SOCCER✨ 😂😂😂😂
Fun fact, soccer comes from Association football. It was actually the British who insisted on that other people should call it soccer.
Now people think it's the other way around. That Americans stole the word or something. 😂
nice Anais pfp lol
Under same parameters.... What would they name modern female volleyball as?
You should do autumn and fall.
I remember my sister crying in first grade or kindergarten about the fact that football wasn't with her feet, it was with her hands. and this was at school during an activity for an after-school we took together
It would not make sense to call American rugby "Football", since it is not played with the feet, instead Football is a sport to be played with the feet.
@@destyne1902the origin of the name football has to do with playing the game on your feet as opposed to on a horse. Originally there were multiple sports called football (associated football(soccer), rugby football, and gridiron football(American football). Over time the dominate sport in a country would just go by the name football. That is why what is called football in the UK is usually called soccer in its former colonies as other forms of football were more dominate.
UK actually invented the name soccer
The British accent sounds like every American actor in the hobbit and lord of the rings 😂
LMAO
I don't watch this guy but my guess is he's aussie or kiwi. Got that kind of accent.
@@ulrichfuhring9170 he has French parents I think. He lives in the usa
@@ulrichfuhring9170 he’s American-French. My estimation is that he has French parents yet brought up in the usa
I believe "football" refers to sports in which you run on your feet instead of riding a horse.
Hence, both are equally football, but having a word to distinguish the two in a region where a different football is more common is very nice.
In my opinion it's because the principal part of your body that you use to move the ball are your feet.
So you run with your hands in handball?
How can someone be so wrong!
That was a really good british accent ngl
The term "soccer" was actually invented by the English since the official name for the sport is Association Football. So in Oxford they took the soc from "Association."
They should have just called it Ass.
@@Ryan.2 asser
Or SoccAss 🙃
Yeah but no one who didn't keep there school tie ever called it that ever. Trust me at least they didn't in the 1930s when you guys defamed it. Honest why cant you lot just admit wasn't yours to change, we don't expect you to change the name at this point.
What everyone who offers this particular platitude was that the reason the toffs started calling it soccer was to differentiate between rugby football (rugger) and association football. So you guys actually mugged of two games.
Asser sounds better.
Or Ass game
I love how he does the British accent it’s actually so good 😂😂😂✋
It's pretty terrible
@@boghund I’m not like an American person saying that, I’m actually British
@@aofdiamonds4389 you can be British but it's still terrible lol
@@boghund well I wrote this com,ent three months ago. Maybe it’s not as good as I thought at that moment but it’s better than some idiots I’ve heard
@@boghundso negative, for what? He has a good British accent as American. You don't need to sour the mood because you live in the most depressing country on earth
i still find it funny that several sports that have far more to do with holding the ball than kicking it were named football
The British accent you use is more accurate then what I've heard on the Internet
The term soccer actually comes from britain, because so many sports had the name football, when it became an official asSOCiation, in order to specify which sport they were talking about they would use soccer to distinguish the difference. But then the other football sports got new names and soccer went back to football but the US kept the name soccer
Oh thats actually a petty cool fact thanks man
Typical US
That's true!
And to my knowledge the reason why us Americans call american football football is because the ball is around 1 foot in length.
@@ExplodingRaven The sport itself actually a derivative of rugby football. Back in the day the name was changed to ‘American football’ to distinguish it from traditional rugby football, but when soccer started being called the standard ‘football’ rugby just started being called rugby and ‘American football’ just never changed its name because we already had the term soccer.
It makes complete sense within context.
"And the ball also kinda looks like a foot"
Footlongball
If it's shaped like a foot it's not a ball
Soccer is logical. You soc it with your foot 🤷♂️
Yeah we're all Kirby
No its not 😂
Petition to make American football called soccer and soccer to be the original name, football.(in the USA)
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Omg, you're perfect!
Pretty sure the term comes from the old name “Association Football” if I remember correctly, sock story is much funnier tho
And it's British slang, to boot. It just caught on in America while it fell out of favor in the UK.
Yeah, but when it became international the Brits joined in Calling it Football, cause other countries did it. But, Some English speaking countries kept the name because we didn't care
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Right! UK had Rugby football and Association football. At one point they'd both dropped the football party of name. Across the pond, rugby was morphing into American football, with the biggest change being admission of the forward (hand) pass. Rugby had since declined in popularity and Soccer has changed back into football in the UK to more closely match their European and global counterparts. American football remains the more popular and lucrative form in the US, though there's potential for that to change very quickly as younger generations take the cultural and political helm.
Thank you. I was really aggravated that he didn't say this in the video
This man is too powerful ! He can imitate all accents perfectly !
other than the english mate it’s acc quite shit
wearing a flat cap doesn’t make you british anyway
@@JD-id5ty He tried to wear common stereotypes.
Appart from the UK accent ☹
@@JD-id5ty kinda does tho
The funny thing about this is that the English came up with the word Soccer in the 1800s, but then stopped using it once it had caught on elsewhere:
"Linguistically creative students at the University of Oxford in the 1880s distinguished between the sports of “rugger” (rugby football) and “assoccer” (association football). The latter term was further shortened to “soccer” (sometimes spelled “socker”), and the name quickly spread beyond the campus."
Fun fact: soccer is the proper name for the sport which most call football
There is only one football game⚽.
Italy be like: "well, we kick the ball.. KICK!" And there it is... Calcio.
Which in Spanish means Calcium
@@beatrizpalacios5517 in italian calcio means both football and calcium😁
@@mattiacolle9623 Lol..a bit confusing
@@beatrizpalacios5517 not at all 🤣 they're used in very different contests, you can't be wrong using them
@@theysaidiwasanerd8879 Of course! We do not need soccer to be healthy, or do we? 😉 Just kidding
I love how everybody glasses over the fact that England invented the word Soccer 😂
Edit: guys English is not my first language so when I typed it in on my keyboard instead glosses it auto corrected to glasses 😂
We also invented football
It's the only thing that Americans can say.. They called association football soccer!! Not football🤣
@@rajanianil244 Where did those Americans learn it from? Good fail on your attempt of a joke. LMAO
@@Circenn Why do they still call it soccer tho.. British stopped using it decade's ago
Yes but why keep calling it that? If everyone else stopped?
OMG! He is soooo good!
Funfact: Sokker means socks in Norwegian
Brits: Laugh at this man, he calls it soccer!
America: Hold on, this whole operation was your idea.
still it’s america’s fault for holding onto it - we brits had the idea to call it something that makes sense
The uk came up with the word soccer but the Americans named the sport soccer
Why is every comment this, is this like common knowledge that everyone thinks isn’t common knowledge while also having people not know it. Or are people copy and pasting other peoples comments for likes
I'm Aussie so we call it soccer because we have another thing called football and the professional version is afl
British Empire- Tell colonies to use imperial system and call it soccer - Disband British Empire and switch to metric and call it football - laugh at colonies- MWAHAHAHA the plan all along!
Actually, the UK is the first to call it soccer.. It's the abbreviation of Associate Football, simce it's the full name of europe Football.. But later on the UK just call it football and the US just stuck with soccer
I didn't know Australia had their own type of football. I haven't searched it up yet, but I'm guessing it involves koalas and kangaroos. Please tell me I'm close. It feels so right.
@@Goldenwolf-ve1fm nope but it does involve running up the backs of opposing players and jumping off them to catch the ball
@@benjaminstrudwick3462 who the actual fuck says "such a Karen way to start a sentence" get outta here with that bullshit
Your stupid no they didn't its "Football"
@@JXI0I they did
Please make a new character that is Canada❤❤😊😊
What annoys me is that people use the argument that the word "soccer" was invented in the UK, and therefore it's right. Ok, most words in the English language exported to other Anglophone countries came from the UK. So what? Doesn't mean that it's right to use the word soccer, as it's ONLY applicable to association football. If you go to a random field, set up goalposts and kick a ball around with your friends, you're playing football, but NOT soccer. Just use the common word for the whole sport, "football", that is correct 100% of the time you use it.
The word "soccer," which is believed to have originated in Britain some 200 years ago, comes from the official name of the sport, "association football." As other versions of the game evolved to include Rugby Football, it is believed the Brits adopted colloquialisms to distinguish each game.
"The rugby football game was shortened to 'rugger,' a term recognized in British English to the present day, and the association football game was, plausibly, shortened to 'soccer'" Szymanski writes. (Apparently ending words in "er" was a fad back then.)
Gradually, the term "soccer" gained popularity in the U.S. to distinguish the sport from American football. By the 1980s, the Brits began to part with the term, apparently, because it had become too "American."
Genuine info thx u
I’ve never heard anyone call it ‘rugger’, maybe it’s a regional thing
This is true.
@@RochRich. I have only ever heard it be called rugby, and it's called rugby worldwide so idk
THANK U I’ve seen so many comments that we (Americans) don’t know how to name a sport
Half of the American “soccer” clubs have FC on their names. Debate settled
The British invented the term soccer.
@@stphilomena911 but they call it football yes? Stick to it
@@stphilomena911 but the thing is FC stands for “Football Club” so, if the americans call the sport “soccer” why do they put FC in the name of the clubs (instead of, for exemple, SC)
@@stphilomena911 and they also invented the sport, so if they call it Football now... call it football
Why do Rugby clubs have FC in them ? Can’t really use the argument that they sometimes kick it as in American football they kick it too…
Such a strong American accent you have bro😂
It's funny how people nowadays argue over things that doesn't make any sense
“They have high socks” I can’t even😭🤚
Ok, everyone is already saying that “soccer” is actually a British term, but the Brits we’re using soccer and football interchangeably into as late as the 1980s where they started using “football” because “soccer” was becoming so American, they wanted to cut any association with the word
Britain really is *not like the other girls*
@@teamcybr8375 I'm pretty sure that's usa
@@dhriti4001 we made the word but now those filthy commoners are using it so we're gonna use a different word and make fun of them for using that one.
That's Britain's thing, not USA's
@@teamcybr8375 well i don't mean just that it's basically everything thing usa does to using farenhite, pounds, date format, and all that stuff while the rest of the world uses the same. Hope you get what I mean, usa is basically the quirky not like the other girls country and there are people saying the same thing in the comments too 😂
@@dhriti4001 We use Fahrenheit because it's a more convenient 0-100 range for daily use than celsius.
I agree on the rest of the metric system. We should use it.
We write our dates the same way a calendar is laid out.
Soccer = Rich people kicking a ball.
Football = Rich people in armor waging war over a ball.
I've got to wonder if he experimented with an Australian accent for an extra part of this.