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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	A nuther crucial day for the beautiful game :) I have been interested in the Football v Soccer mini debates I've heard online and on the street so I decided to try to take it further and do a little research. Off to the local library I went and straight to the etymology section to get to the root of it, I thought. After a good hour of searching through some fascinating literature on Bombadier beetles (they make thier own explosives you know) I realised that I was in the Entomology section, not the Etymology one. My curiosity can't spell and my research skills are not what you would call sharp. I was however, a little more productive online and it appears that my first assumption that "soccer" was introduced by our American cousins to differentiate between "The Beautiful Game" and American Football was erroneous. Here are a couple of links that clarified the situation: [url=http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=soccer] The Online Etymology Dictionary[/url] [url=http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,420024,00.html] Spiegel Online[/url] On a slight diversion this was interesting too [url=http://johnquiggin.com/index.php/archives/2006/06/16/soccer-or-football/] John Quiggin Soccer or Football[/url] I know now that some of us are glued to the TV watching the World Cup thinking "I wonder what fonts are used on the various countries football kits? Come on, I know you were, well wonder no more. [url=http://www.linotype.com/2710/footbaljerseyfonts.html?PHPSESSID=33409b89a2] Football Jersey Fonts[/url] ;) Thanks for that breakdown binary, I'll be rooting for the USA and Australia today. [b]COME ON YOU ExCOLONIES!![/b] :p ;) [img]http://tao.serveit.org/sigs/dementao3.gif[/img] [doh] Fingers can't spell either[/doh] [small](Edited by [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/user/4175]Tao[/url] on 06-22-2006 13:13)[/small] Loading...
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