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Do not confuse the spelling '''fo<big>u</big>ler''' with '''Fo<big>w</big>ler'''. They sound exactly the same, but have different meanings.
*'''Fouler''' is the [[comparative]] form of the [[adjective]] '''foul'''. It means 'more dirty'.
*'''Fowler''' is a word less used these days than it was, as it labels a job that no longer exists professionally. It means 'one who catches (or shoots) [wild]'''fowl''', or birds'. '''Fowlers''' (or '''wildfowlers''') nowadays are those who shoot wild duck, geese, etc, for sport as much as for money. 
**'''Fowler''' has also become an an  [[occupational surname]]. I it is invariably linked, in the minds of the writers of AWE, with the great writer in the early twentieth century of usage guides, '''[[Fowler|Henry Watson Fowler]]'''.

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