When your daughter-in-law messages you at quarter to seven in the evening and says, "Do you want to go for a swim in the sea?" there's only one answer.
We went to Caswell where the tide was coming in over warm sand and had a lovely swim. Actually we had more of a 'toss-about' in the waves. Didn't get much swimming done but it was great.
It did mean I missed the end of the football. Regular readers will know I'm not a football fan but when it's the finals of the European championship and England's playing, well, even I am interested. I left just after full-time. The score then was one all so it went to extra time where England won!
At one point after Germany had equalised I shouted, "Come on England," then turned to Husband and said, "You won't often hear me say that!"
Did I mention they were women?
The hoardings around the pitch read, "It's not women's football. It's football played by women." Which left me wondering what you call it then.
I understand what they're saying, not wanting to differentiate between the men and women's game, but how else do they plan to describe it? Football played by women is rather cumbersome.
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Does everyone regularly call the other games "men's football"? I bet not.
I have an idea. Let's just call it football.
Maybe we could even have mixed teams?
Yay for the women!
Semantics can be so stealthy that being picky about such terminology is understandable. I know that I used to bristle when someone referred to a woman engineer or female engineer. Trust me that I did not engineer women or females. Normally, it was aircraft. And, yes, around here we do often, if not usually, speak of men's soccer or women's socker - using the possessive. I like Boud's idea.
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