r/SipsTea • • 13h ago

Gasp! Just American things

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u/Frequent-Coyote-8108 13h ago

This bit COULD be funny...if he used words that Americans actually used.

Also, squash and racketball are not the same sport. It's not like Americans have different words for sports like Golf or Tennis or anything.

Just a poorly constructed bit.

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u/Noble_Jerk 13h ago

or soccer

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u/LiquidSix- 12h ago

Americans didn’t invent the word soccer. Football used to be called Association Football, “soccer” is abbreviated slang of that.. which the English came up with, not Americans.

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u/Turducken_McNugget 11h ago edited 11h ago

It's still called Association Football. The governing body is FIFA which stands for (translated from French to English) International Federation of Association Football.