canonical-ci-engineering team mailing list archive

[Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 23/01/14 16:05, Brad Figg wrote:
> On 01/23/2014 06:54 AM, Evan Dandrea wrote:
>> Just to clarify, this is football, not the sport that some of you in
>> America play which confusingly bears the same name.
>>
>> While we're here, it's the pavement, not a sidewalk, you walk under a
>> road through a subway but take the tube from Heathrow, and you had
>> better line up your knife and fork on your plate when you're done
>> eating.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> On 23 January 2014 14:36, Evan Dandrea <evan.dandrea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Every Monday at noon a few of us play football at a pitch five minutes
>>> from the office for our lunch break. If you want to join in on the
>>> first day of the sprint, please do let me know as soon as you can.
>>> Should be a great way to shake off that jet lag.
>>>
>>> If you don't own a pair of astro trainers, running shoes will do fine.
>>> There are showers in the basement of Bluefin, but you'll need to bring
>>> your own towel and soap.
>>>
>>> Please do share this email on with anyone you think would be
>>> interested in attending.
>>>
>>> Cheers!
> 
> In the early days of the sport among the upper echelons of British society,
> the proper term for the sport was “Soccer”. So, do *not* go blaming us
> because you folks don't know what you call your own sport, sport.
> 
http://www.etymonline.com states:

1889, socca, later socker (1891), soccer (1895), originally university
slang (with jocular formation -er (3)), from a shortened form of Assoc.,
abbreviation of association in Football Association (as opposed to Rugby
football); cf. rugger. An unusual method of formation, but those who did
it perhaps shied away from making a name out of the first three letters
of Assoc.