6/2/09

Brit Word of the Day

Todays BWOTD is one in regular daily use:

"Oh it was a howler, just terrible!"

'Howler' = Blunder or Faux Pas

I suspect the history of this might have something to do with people 'howling' with laughter when somebody blundered this badly, but I have no proof on this theory!

3 comments:

Daryl said...

I am going to try to use this ...

The Prodigal Tourist said...

Prodigal Wife has been telling me a howler is something funny--thanks for the back up on this!
On a different note, we're giving away some Brit tea if you want to pop in...

Fred said...

I heard that a few times. I rather liked it.

On your MTV post, I just saw it earlier this afternoon. It was hilarious.