Статья про употребление слов "football" и "soccer" в Англии и Америке.
For much of the century, Szymanski said, Britons would not have minded being called soccer fans. The problem came, he said, in the 1970s and ’80s, as the sport became more of a force in the United States under the now-defunct North American Soccer League.
That threatened people, and the English particularly, he said, and caused them to go on violent rants on the topic of America’s obnoxious and perverse tendency to do things differently from everyone else and then claim its way to be superior.
“I think the rest of the world finds the concept of American exceptionalism — ‘We’re giving it a different name because we’re better and different than you guys’ — very irritating,” he said. “But that’s not what happened here.”
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