Further Antedatings of "Hooligan"

[Nancy Friedman]

>From 1996 to 2006, the Yahoo site for kids was called "Yahooligans!" It was
intended, without irony, as "a venue to find appropriate, safe Internet
content." The site was renamed "Yahoo! Kids." (Exclamation marks [sic].)

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-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Quinion [mailto:michael.quinion at WORLDWIDEWORDS.ORG]
Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2014 2:56 AM
Subject: Re: Further Antedatings of "Hooligan"

Many thanks to Stephen Goranson, Hugo and Fred Shapiro for further findings
about the origin of "hooligan". This provoked me into revisiting and
re-researching a World Wide Words piece written back in 1998. You may feel
the new version throws further light on the story behind the word:

   http://wwwords.org/hlgn

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Michael Quinion
World Wide Words
Web: http://www.worldwidewords.org

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