Greetings Dallas!   
      
    DH>> Dunno how that name change came about.   
      
    RW>> I changed it in my old brain. Didn't realize it until I saw the   
    RW>> soccer news this morning...   
      
    DH> Actually, I meant that I don't know why it's "soccer" in North   
    DH> America and "football" everywhere (?) else!   
      
   Ahhh. I do. Back in the 1880s, 'association football' as it was known   
   then, was too long to say in one breath, so the word 'association' was   
   re-arranged to 'soccer' (don't ask me how they came to that arrangement).   
      
   Americans being Americans wanting to correct badly spelled British English   
   already had a game called football and so they refused to make the   
   association with the way the Brits spelled it.   
      
   When I looked up the etymology of the word 'socker', I got the above info   
   and drew some of my own conclusions from it.   
      
      
       Have a day!   
      
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