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03rd Feb 2016

PIC: English-speakers will be cracking up at this name of the new French rugby magazine

Carl Kinsella

You’d think we’d be more mature than this…

But you would be absolutely, positively, 100% in the wrong.

If you were to put together a rugby magazine in Ireland, chances are you might call it something like “Try” or “Scrum” or “Tackle.” Whoever set up France’s latest rugby mag used exactly that kind of rationale…

Only it turns out that the French word for tackle is guaranteed to get more than a snigger out of anyone who speaks English. Don’t believe us? Take a look.

Did you snigger? Don’t lie.

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Rugby