Comments on: Football??? Newcastle 3-2 Sunderland

By: Marc

Marc — Mon, 24 Oct 2005 13:42:53 +0000

Ya mean “Smatter chew?”

No, I’m from west Tennessee, not north Mississippi….

By: Mark R.

Mark R. — Mon, 24 Oct 2005 03:52:58 +0000

You ain’t one o’ them fancy talkin’ folks. What’s a matter with you?

Ya mean “Smatter chew?”

By: Marc

Marc — Mon, 24 Oct 2005 02:59:30 +0000

You ain’t one o’ them fancy talkin’ folks. What’s a matter with you?

But seriously, if a guy from Scotland suddenly links to my website right after that gets posted without threatening to make me eat haggis, you must have missed it was a joke…

By: Mark R.

Mark R. — Mon, 24 Oct 2005 02:46:43 +0000

I do hope that was sarcasm. Association football has been around a lot longer than American football or Canadian football. It’s also a lot more entertaining than watching 22 grown men run into each other.

From the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary:

Main Entry: soc·cer
Pronunciation: ’sä-k&r
Function: noun
Etymology: by shortening & alteration from association football
: a game played on a field between two teams of 11 players each with the object to propel a round ball into the opponent’s goal by kicking or by hitting it with any part of the body except the hands and arms — called also association football

(Emphasis mine)