Re: Too much? (Was: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages)

On Thu, 4 Apr 2024 14:50:19 +0100
Chris Elvidge <chris@mshome.net> wrote:

On 03/04/2024 at 08:38, David Brown wrote:

One lottery winner managed this.  When he won about £160M in the
lottery, he bought his favourite football club (or "soccer club", for
those who come from a country where "football" doesn't involve feet or
round balls) and set it up as a trust owned by the club's fans.

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I do wish people would stop intimating that the US is the only place
where Association Football (the football we play in the UK) is known as
soccer. When I was at secondary school (back in the 1960's) "soccer
practise" was a well know alternative to the term "football practise".

IME the only people in the UK who call football "soccer" are rugger bugger
types.