Further Antedatings of "Hooligan"

[Michael Quinion]

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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