Talk:Owling
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New use for the term
[edit]Just a bit of divergent usage here. TMLutas (talk) 14:24, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
- yes there seems to be a new meaning of owling. There is a
Media related to Owling at Wikimedia Commons :-) --Blonder1984 (talk) 10:40, 18 July 2011 (UTC)
There was a bit of a discussion about that. A page was put up but then deleted by the community. See [Owling (fad)]. 129.174.75.130 (talk) 00:01, 20 July 2011 (UTC)
Origin of the word
[edit]"It is presumed" that it is from the nocturnal activity... I suspect that this presumption is a bit of a "pub-fact" that sounds superficially logical, but doesn't really stack up. After all there are any number of other activities carried on at night which are not included (smuggling into, rather than out of, the country, for example). But there is a common linguistic phenomenon of the metathesis of letters in some words in common speech - saying "aks" instead of "ask", "wops" instead of "wasp" etc. I think this has happened here - and the "woolers" have become "owlers". Mandymet (talk) 03:13, 6 February 2026 (UTC)