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I just call it footy at this point. That way nobody confuses it for handegg.
If you want to feel a little better the word soccer comes from English universities back in like 1880 as a slang word for association football. It was used interchangeably with the word football without issue for about a century in England. British media regularly featured the word in prominent broadcasts like Soccer Saturday or magazines like World Soccer. When the sport reached the yanks they kept the word soccer and dropped the word football and the reverse happened in the UK around the 1980s.
The exact same thing happened to imperial/metric measurement lol.
heard a similar story about the English accent, that it used to sound like the American one but drifted after US independence.
not sure how valid that is or how to even prove it
So, there's some truth to this, but not in the way that you've summed it up.
Crucially, you need to understand that there isn't a "the English accent". It's also important to remember that as wildly different as accents in England are now, they were even more different from each other several hundred years ago.
So which accents are we talking about for this story? Well, the early American colonies had settlers mostly from London and Southern England.
This is the accent that then diverged.
At the time, and in the South of England particularly, speech was becoming less rhotic. In the American colonies, however, it retained its rhoticity, as it still does in many parts of Britain even today.
This is further complicated by the fact that later massive influxes of people came from parts of Britain that did retain rhoticity in their accents, in particular the West Country, Scotland and Ireland (incidentally, all which still have it today).
So, like I said, there's some truth to it, but it's not quite as you've phrased it. Elizabethan Brits didn't sound like modern-day Boston folk. Americans very much have accents all of their own, influenced by not just by native English, but speakers of other languages too.
So, it's definitely a neat little tidbit, but it's usually wildly mistated!
Many sports are called football as they have a common origin (and probably because they are played on foot rather than horseback)
Can we just leave it at that for both sides?
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He had a lot of fans. He's been dropping a bit in popularity with his fan base and the quality issues with his other ventures has tanked his brand.