Posts Tagged ‘World Cup’

Qatar the Underqatar

Thursday, December 2nd, 2010

(The title only makes sense if you pronounce “Qatar” as “KUH-tar”).

So it looks like they’ll be playing the 2022 World Cup in the warm Middle Eastern sun: “Russia and Qatar Win World Cup Bids“.

Yikes.

South African Slang

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

So as you know South Africa is hosting the FIFA World Cup in June.

South African flag

Ahead of that, the “Schott’s Vocab” blog on the New York Times has a list of South African slang.

Check out: “Soccer World Cup Slang.”