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Chouette - A few history notes

Posted By: PINO
Date: Friday, 19 February 2016, at 10:24 a.m.

In Response To: Chouette - A few history notes (Rick Janowski)

Chouette has two meanings in French. It means cool (as in, let's go to the cinema? ouais, chouette!) and it refers to a class of owls (not owls in general, they are small owls and can turn their heads some 270°). I've read somewhere that chouettes are known to attack their prey in groups and in a vicious way which made that second meaning look like team vs captain and team vs box shout-outs. Makes perfect sense to me.

I live in bilingual Belgium and most players here refer to a chouette as "shoe-et" as do the English native speakers. But for sure, the word for cool is pronounced as "shwet" - a single syllable word.

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