I thought it was a newish word made up by stupid Yanks but while working on a old building today on the Headland i found a Mail from 1967 and it had "football fixtures" in it

How long as this word been used any ideas

Who is fooking about with my post

There's someone on the Headland who's still reading a Mail they bought in 1967?

The American word for football beginning with s is banned I think.

Correct, it is automatically edited to football in the board swear filter

so it should but im asking a question and i cant if somone is fooking about with it

nobody is fooking about with it though!

verbalkint man - chill the fook out

if you type in the word s0ccer, in it's normal form, it gets changed to football.

This is automatic, no one is physically changing it.

right i didnt know about the automatic thing and thought i was getting my plonker pulled but can anybody answer my question ? the paper was from 67 and of all the footage of the 66 world cup i can never recall the S word used so when did it first start getting used ?

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~pstone/why.html

according to this, its been around since the 19th century as a nickname of asSOCiation football.

As people used to call Rugby, "Ruggers"

Football people started calling is Assoccer which eventually got shortened to football........Bounders

I know the answer, I've studied this at Uni.

The word "s0ccer" was brought into use in the English language through a small and not very interesting local newspaper circa 1967. it was a spelling mistake and should have said "football " and junior reporter, Roy Kelly put his mistake down to being not very good at his job.

NO

AND YOU CAN welcome to the board YOU TOOLING silly boy

My great gran who lived in the town her whole life and pre-dated Pools by a good few years always called football s*ccer. Apparently this was because the eggchasers at Rovers, who beat Pools into existence by a couple of decades, always called themselves a football club, footballers etc. The beautiful game arrived later and the s*ccer word was used so that people knew who you were on about.

If you'd called her American she would have denounced you as a rarf. We should reclaim the s word from the cultural imperialist yankees! Or maybe not.

Verbal-there is quite a few words/name and sayings etc that will get changed when you type them. Like........

Grave and Obafemi are both boring not nice people