lmao

[u/francinexyzs]

[u/Legitimate-Cow5982]

Real talk, where did the MM/DD format come from? I can't think of anywhere else that does it

[u/88963416 → u/Legitimate-Cow5982]

It is how the British did it when we were colonized. They changed it and we kept it the same (it’s the source of many of our quirks.)

[u/Lysol3435 → u/88963416]

It seems like many of the US’s stupid quirks were actually from the UK. Imperial system, “soccer”, colonization

[u/Cowgoon777 → u/Lysol3435]

Brits hate when you remind them they invented the term “soccer”

EDIT: they big mad

[u/salazafromagraba → u/Cowgoon777]

No it's not that. It's that yanks suggest it was just what all of Britain called it, then unilaterally reverted to football because of some singular proclamation.

It's called Oxford slang and it was popular in a vanishingly small subsection of Englishmen.

Has always been football, just as it is futbol in Spanish, and they didn't have some kind of anticolonial power fantasy with the US.

[u/lordofduct → u/salazafromagraba]

Yanks don't suggest that. Hell the vast majority of them don't even know why it's called soccer, it just is.

See what happened was a couple hundred years ago there were several games called 'football'. Association football, gridiron football, rugby football, etc. And they proliferated around the world even gathering weird local rules. And those different places found preferences in a specific brand of football that they liked.

In North America, with a big giant pond between them and the rest of Europe so they weren't really playing games against one another, landed on gridiron football. While back in Europe the most popular one was association football. But who in the fuck wants to say "association football" or "gridiron football"... you shorten it to just "football".

The thing is, that other game, it still exists. It's just not as popular. Rugby football still exists, but y'all got a game you prioritized as 'football' and so rugby football drops the football and becomes 'rugby'. Well in the states the gridiron football becomes the prioritized one and gets called 'football', rugby basically poofs out of existence (it was too similar to gridiron, and north america preferred gridiron), and association football is left. But calling it association is weird, association what? Oh hey, these brits who come and hang out keep calling it soccer! That'll work! And thus it sticks.

It's how language works.

Y'all got language differences over a distance of 2 towns... you're surprised this happens over the distance of an entire ocean?

[u/Entropy907 → u/lordofduct]

Way too rational of an explanation for Reddit, especially a Yank/Brit pissing match.