{"id":16320,"date":"2006-03-28T10:13:50","date_gmt":"2006-03-28T18:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/neology\/2006\/03\/28\/soccer.html"},"modified":"2006-03-28T10:13:50","modified_gmt":"2006-03-28T18:13:50","slug":"soccer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2006\/03\/28\/soccer\/","title":{"rendered":"soccer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I wasn't planning to run an item today, it being my birthday, but then I learned my favorite bit of etymology in ages:<\/p>\n<p>It turns out that \"soccer\" was originally an abbreviation for \"association football.\"<\/p>\n<p>My initial gut feeling was that that sounded awfully unlikely (just because the sounds of the words are so different, even though I know that that's no indication), but MW11 confirms it.<\/p>\n<p>I'm guessing that the term \"association football\" (first appearance 1873, according to MW11) had to do with the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Football_Association\">Football Association<\/a>, founded in 1863.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wasn&#8217;t planning to run an item today, it being my birthday, but then I learned my favorite bit of etymology in ages: It turns out that &#8220;soccer&#8221; was originally&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-etymology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}