I know this hasn't been covered in the last year or so but you do realize the Soccer was coined by the British. They called it soccer to differentiate it from other football sports. Then the Americans picked it up since it was an easy way to describe the sport. Then the Brits didn't like that the Americans were calling it the same thing they were and went back to calling it just football.
Football is a group of sports, Rugby, American football (Gird Iron), Aussie Rules an of course soccer, but wherever they are played, they are known as just football.
Yes! And also no. The Brits had several longer names for each type of football- football basically being most games played with a ball on and foot as opposed to horseback. I’ll save the whole lecture but due to the slang of time- to differentiate the games they had primarily “Soccer” and “Rugger” as “er” was a popular convention. Americans went and invented our own football- which we just had the one- so we called it “foot ball.” Americans picked up the game and term “soccer” from the British origins- but then the Brits got upset we were using their word and making it less cool- so they started calling soccer “football” to take the piss out of the Americans.
So America was the first to just call their game “football” as its actual name, and the British were the first to call the game “soccer,” and all the international guff America gets for having the “weird” football or calling the game “soccer” is misplaced because we just called soccer what the Brits called it, and we had the name “football” for the actual proper name before soccer was football everywhere else.
With many imperial units- similar deal. Many were inherited from the Brits since we were their colony. Britain didn’t adopt metric until the mid 1960’s- and that was only largely because most of Europe besides them used metric, and their close proximity and regular dealings and cooperation with other European nations made it pretty necessary. But you can still find many things in Britain from consumer goods to signage with imperial measures. Less so after the early 2000’s when laws were passed to make imperial measures unauthorized for most consumer goods, and initiatives were undertaken to remove old signs and such in imperial. But right up through the 1990’s there still weren’t legal requirements to use metric for many things!
So many of the “odd” things in the IS actually make pretty good sense of one knows their history (or is old enough to have been able to remember things from not so many decades ago), and the whole “why doesn’t The US use metric” thing takes a new dimension when we realize that it wasn’t until fairly recently that our parent did either.
At this point the only reason I'm against changing listed units to metric is because it pisses off the Euroes and that delights me.
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I mean, there’s also the cost of changing every single tool, every single piece of manufacturing equipment in every factory, every single measurement instrument in every school across the country
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