Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?
On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 13:49 +0100, Wackojacko wrote:
> >>> No hard feelings Sanchez. Buy yourself a football (a round one!),
> >>> and get out into the fresh air.
> >> A "round football"?!! Well colo*u*r me surpri*z*ed.
> >>
> > Soccer man, soccer.
> >
>
> No definitely football.
>
> Why call a sport where the object of the game is to pick the ball up in
> your hands, run with it and throw it to your colleague so he can do the
> same *foot*ball. In the UK thats a foul and if you do it deliberately
> you could get sent off!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FootBall
there is a rival explanation, which has it that football
originally referred to a variety of games in medieval Europe,
which were played on foot.[1] These games were usually played
by peasants, as opposed to the horse-riding sports often played
by aristocrats.
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