россказ о хоккеи на англиском

William Pierre Le Cocq stated, in a 1799 letter written in Chesham, England, “I must now describe to you the game of Hockey; we have each a stick turning up at the end. We get a bung. There are two sides one of them knocks one way and the other side the other way. If any one of the sides makes the bung reach that end of the churchyard it is victorious.” The word "hockey" was used centuries earlier, in 1363 when King Edward III of England issued a proclamation banning a number of games: "moreover we ordain that you prohibit under penalty of imprisonment all and sundry from such stone, wood and iron throwing; handball, football, or hockey; coursing and cock-fighting, or other such idle games."

From the context, the word "hockey" is a corruption of the word "hook" (referring to the end of the stick). In 1527 a statute in Galway, Ireland read, "At no time to use ne occupy ye hurling of ye litill balle with the hookie sticks or staves, nor use no hand balle to play without the walls, but only the great foot balle." This referred to hurling; the hook made it likely that the stick resembled those used in shinty.

According to the Austin Hockey Association, the word "puck" derives from the Scots Gaelic puc or the Irish poc (to poke, punch or deliver a blow). "...The blow given by a hurler to the ball with his caman or hurley is always called a puck."