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Thread #89782 Message #1697160
Posted By: autolycus
18-Mar-06 - 05:04 PM
Thread Name: BS: Baseball- One hell of a beating
Subject: RE: BS: Baseball- One hell of a beating
Small side point; 'soccer' is not merely the American for association football. It's been the colloquial English term since the 19th century, tho' for a long time it was spelt 'socker'. I have GB soccer books, thus spelt, from the 50s.