Origins of the Word "Soccer"

[Shapiro, Fred]

Today's New York Times has a letter to the editor by me about the origins of the word "soccer."  The citations in question were not discovered by me, but rather by Evan Kirshenbaum.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/29/sports/letters-to-the-sports-editor.html?ref=todayspaper&_r=0

Fred Shapiro
Editor
Yale Book of Quotations (Yale University Press)

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