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related story, Brits used to call Soccer Soccer and not Football >> https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/06/why-we-call-soccer-soccer/372771/

• hydrox24 7y ago
  > New Zealand's largest newspaper is deeply conflicted. With the World Cup underway in Brazil, should The New Zealand Herald refer to the "global round-ball game" as "soccer" or "football"? The question has been put to readers, and the readers have spoken. It's "football"—by a wide margin. Interestingly, if you asked Australians, it would be "soccer" by a wide margin.