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Re:Inventing a Soccer Ball for Poor Countries by nollidge on Friday November 09, 2012 @03:31PM (#4764620)
You may already be aware of this, but the word "soccer" in fact comes from shortening the word "association":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_for_association_football

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