thisbenzingring

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[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.today 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

https://www.britannica.com/story/why-do-some-people-call-football-soccer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_(word)

The word "soccer" originated as an Oxford "-er" slang abbreviation of "association", and is credited to late nineteenth century English footballer, Charles Wreford-Brown.[8] It has been speculated that both this story and the William Webb Ellis rugby story are apocryphal, however this appears to be a revision of history as the English term "soccer" fell out of favour while England differentiated their language from America's (where the term soccer had become widely used) English in the 20th century due to growing American popularity.[9] "Socker" with a k appeared in print at least as early as 1889.[10] The New York Times, published in 1905: "It was a fad at Oxford and Cambridge to use 'er' at the end of many words, such as foot-er, sport-er, and as Association did not take an 'er' easily, it was, and is, sometimes spoken of as Soccer."[11] There is also the sometimes-heard variation, "soccer football".[12]

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.today 3 points 1 day ago (4 children)

dude, just look it up

it's fact. the upper class didn't want to play soccer because the lower class were playing it so they called it football

yeah, that was an amazing season for them. And inspiration for many underdogs

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.today 5 points 1 day ago (4 children)

what is the significance of 5000-1 ?

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.today 9 points 1 day ago (6 children)

it was called soccer before it was called football in England

you will never get Americans to not call the ball a football and a soccer ball

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.today 2 points 2 days ago

I usually sort by subscribed so... IDK what is going on here

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.today 0 points 2 days ago (2 children)

bold statement

needs a yellow stream at the bottom, a blinking one that is only attached on the one end, so it moves about when the wind blows

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.today 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

would that be a lemon party?

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.today 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

i hope Bill gave him a wet flap on his forehead after the orgasm

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.today 1 points 3 days ago

thanks friend, I see you too

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.today 6 points 4 days ago

from the software perspective its just ram addresses from xyz to 123, so the CPU will be the factor

but the hardware will have a bus route (makes division of the full RAM address range) for quick access to the address that is the second chip which is the only thing that makes 2x4 just a touch faster then 1x8

basically two lane road to the full addresses vs a 1 lane road

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.today 1 points 4 days ago

Well... Robin layed an egg and that is just too much for some folks

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