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Thread #156701   Message #3693955
Posted By: GUEST,Dave
14-Mar-15 - 01:29 PM
Thread Name: Anachronisms in lyrics
Subject: RE: Anachronisms in lyrics
"The use of the word "football" has both class and regional variations but in the first half of the last century was regualarly used for both eleven and fifteen man games."

And thirteen, surely. That has been separate since 1895.