TIL in Britain, association football used to be called "soccer" by the upper class, while the working and middle classes preferred the word "football".

TIL in Britain, association football used to be called "soccer" by the upper class, while the working and middle classes preferred the word "football". As the upper class lost influence in British society from the 1960s on, "football" supplanted "soccer" as the most commonly used and accepted word.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_for_association_football
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