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Originally Posted by lio45
Growing up, it was universally called kickball by all of us in my francophone area of Quebec.
(Anecdotal bit, in my head it was spelled Quickball - only much later as an adult with some notions of English did I realize in retrospect what "kick" meant and that it made total sense as a name.)
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I admit that kickball / soccer-baseball made me scratch my head.
I mean, I knew exactly what it was but I wondered (as I always do when I heard a term like that in English) how I'd say that in French.
Then it dawned upon me that I'd only played soccer-baseball (that's what they called it) in the English schools I went to.
In my years of schooling in French we never happened to play that sport.
I'll have to ask my kids tonight if they've ever played it and what they call it.
I bet that if they know it it's called kickball.