[Tagging] football or soccer ?

[Steve Doerr]

"Pieren" <pieren3 at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:AANLkTik_jwS7CgYh5h5zCRcI-Br8yLYMA1DSAQ6Jz373 at mail.gmail.com...
> On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 7:26 PM, Steve Doerr 
> <steve.doerr at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

> > Spurious argument: the A also stands for 'Association'. In other words, 
> > the sport is described in FIFA's name as 'football association', i.e.
> > (in English) 'association football'.



> Are you sure:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_Association
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_football

Fairly certain. To quote from the second article:

'Football is governed internationally by the Fédération Internationale de 
Football Association (International Federation of Association Football), 
commonly known by the acronym FIFA.'

See also: 'On distingue le football association du football rugby où l'usage 
des mains est autorisé (Ac. 1932).' 
(<http://atilf.atilf.fr/dendien/scripts/tlfiv5/visusel.exe?24;s=3977386470;r=2;nat=;sol=0;>)

-- 
Steve