[Tagging] football or soccer ?

charlie at cferrero.net charlie at cferrero.net
Mon Jun 28 09:01:51 BST 2010


pavithran (pavithran.s at gmail.com) wrote:


> Italian term is definitely ambiguous
> http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football says something that its an
> 'english term'
>
Going slightly OT, but Italian uses the word "calcio" normally,  
literally "kick".  I've rarely heard anyone use the word "football" or  
(even less so) "soccer" unless they're talking to a foreigner.


-- 
Charlie





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