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Re:Which English? by vacri on Wednesday June 04, 2014 @03:38AM (#7844420)
You can also play with the soccer team. Which team do you play with at the university? I play with the soccer team. (rather than the rugby or netball or basketball or whatever teams)

And yes, they should have used 'football', and let each locality think they meant a different sport :)

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Re:Which English? by prof_hobart on Wednesday June 04, 2014 @07:19AM (#7844937)
Maybe it's a regional thing (I'm from the East Midlands), but playing with the team has a different connotation from playing for the team to me - although both are valid sentences.

Playing for the team suggests that I'm part of that team. Playing with the team would say to me that I'm not part of them, but I've been co-opted for a game or something like that.

Oddly, I would say "playing with the orchestra" rather than "playing for ...".

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Re:Which English? by hornetblack on Wednesday June 04, 2014 @04:35AM (#7844594)
I call both Soccer and AFL Football, and call Rugby, Footy. I only ever talk about AFL with my mother, Soccer with friends and Rugby with no one.

It can be really confusing when all three are somewhat popular in one country.

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Re:Which English? by Fuzzwah on Wednesday June 04, 2014 @02:15PM (#7847188)
League or Union?

I'd call rugby league "footy", but rugby union will always be "ruggers".

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Re:Which English? by hornetblack on Thursday June 05, 2014 @10:00PM (#7855827)
Leauge, I just call Union: Union.
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