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You Guys Have Always Had a Gift with the Language
In Response To: A Howler ()

Excellent choice of a word!!

You guys have always had a gift with the language; I suppose that's why we continue to call it "English", rather than "American".

Limited to only one word, we would probably have called this play a "choke" . . . far less descriptive than the word "howler". Let's hope that your team has gotten the "howler" out of its system, and will play better football for the remainder of the tournament.

Jeff

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: We call it a howler - quite a common event in the English game.
: Defined as an excruciatingly painful momentary lapse of
: concentration at the highest level of the game. For the English
: team, an inevitable even likely to occur at least once per
: tournament.

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