yeh, i'm a Man Utd fan, no matter how frustrating this can be at times :) and although it seems that Chelsea have a more linguistically interesting manager :) (Billy has been drawing my attention to this lately, if you follow the matches more than the press conferences like i do, you probably didn't notice but check out sports news on the verbal clash between Mourinho and Arsene Wenger)
thanks Ruosteinen, i think what you say is true. let me just add that this goes back to the late 19th century, and the earliest example in the OED for "soccer" is:
"1889 E. C. DOWSON Let. 21 Feb. (1967) 38, I absolutely decline to see socca' matches."
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So, you root for Man Utd!
Intresting that you are a Soccer fan Cool., Ooops I mean "Football".
BTW, What Lingustics says about "Soccer"??
hi there,
yeh, i'm a Man Utd fan, no matter how frustrating this can be at times :) and although it seems that Chelsea have a more linguistically interesting manager :) (Billy has been drawing my attention to this lately, if you follow the matches more than the press conferences like i do, you probably didn't notice but check out sports news on the verbal clash between Mourinho and Arsene Wenger)
thanks Ruosteinen, i think what you say is true. let me just add that this goes back to the late 19th century, and the earliest example in the OED for "soccer" is:
"1889 E. C. DOWSON Let. 21 Feb. (1967) 38, I absolutely decline to see socca' matches."
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