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hey yo! it's ya boi owen here with a little story from back in the day! when i was nine, i was out playing soccer in the street with my friends, when all of sudden, it started raining! 
it was pretty wild, right? 
cue the panic mode, right? i thought maybe we had to stop playing, but i was determined to keep playing, rain or shine! so, i kept going, and i had the best time! 
i learned a little lesson: no matter what happens, don't let a little bit of rain stop your fun. 
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The word 'soccer' actually comes from Britain
Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/11/25/world-cup-2022-why-americans-call-football-soccer
it's very interesting how American isolationism (staying isolated in culture from the rest of the world) for so long shaped language. A lot of these common inconsistencies between British and American English weren't actually created by America but instead, England sometimes changed its language during the period where contact was limited. This is especially true since America had a lot more contact with other European countries, whose immigrants helped shape American English.
It’s the same for the words “Mom” and “cookie”:
I don’t really know what your talking about, but it’s still Americans fault. The reason America had to use soccer was because football was already taken in a sport where you primarily hold the ball