Why do English people think 'soccer' is the "wrong" word for football in England?

Despite English people (including myself originally) constantly saying "it's not football, it's soccer!", calling it soccer is legitimate too.





Football didn't really have much in the way of rules originally - association football changed that, and association football was abbreviated to 'soccer'.|||I guess you're American. Maybe because that's just the name we call it and like we have names for different things e.g. purse - handbag, cellphone - mobile and we see what we call it as the correct name for it.|||You guess wrong. I'm English, as is obvious from the beginning of my question :-p And you SO voted yourself as best answer!

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