Yes, you are wasting your time with that but not for the reasons you think.

“Britain” didn’t come up with the name “soccer.” You’re anthropomorphising a chunk of land.

A small number of very posh students from Oxford University gave it that, as a nickname. Just for reference, these are the people who also call rugby “rugga.”

Basically, an American heard it and confused it with the actual name of the sport and was stupid enough to convince you all to call it that.

There’s someone in Britain right now who calls it punty kick chase. I can assure you that name is wrong too and you would look silly if you tried to justify you also calling it that by saying “Britain came up with punty kick chase.”

"The whole world calls it football. Are we so out of touch?

No, it’s the rest of the world who are wrong."

Just like work. If a government tried to treat us like that, we would have a revolution tomorrow. Yet, we’ve all been groomed into just accepting it.