In Arabic, the unknown quantity in an equation is referred to as shay, or "thing".
Babbage has long thought the make-believe "one-hoss shay" memorialised by Oliver Wendell Holmes to be the most sublime piece of engineering ever conceived.
Mention Rick's Café and even those who haven't seen it will suck their teeth and shay, "Play it again, Sam", though, as we all know, Humphrey Bogart never actually says it.
The broadcasters' tongue-in-cheek tweeted assessment included the apology, the suggestion the home goalkeeper Kieren Westwood might have "fallen asleep" when he was replaced by Shay Given, and that the Republic's former non-league player, Harry Arter, would be "used to this standard".
Shay Given, who was making his first Premier League appearance since August 2012 after Sherwood decided to drop Brad Guzan, earned a booking for protesting that Séamus Coleman fouled him prior to Jagielka scoring.
After Munich, production slowed, Shay Brennan the only trainee to establish himself, but then, in the early part of the 60s, George Best, Nobby Stiles, David Sadler, and John Aston all broke through.
Southampton move on to their best Premier League points tally of 60 and Mané was quick to praise Long who, in addition to providing two assists, produced a late contender for goal of the season, having beaten Shay Given with a curling 40-yard shot.
Shay Bannon, head of business restructuring at accountants BDO Stoy Hayward, predicts a rise in business insolvencies in England and Wales of 25% or more next year, with over 20,000 firms going to the wall.
Whether or not this apportionment of profits complies with transfer-pricing rules, it is "not consistent with a commonsense understanding of where the locus of Microsoft's economic activity…is occurring," said Mr Shay.
Among his other works are the poems "The Chambered Nautilus" (1858) and "The Deacon's Masterpiece, or 'The Wonderful One-Hoss Shay' " (1858), often seen as an attack on Calvinism, and the psychological novel Elsie Venner (1861), also an attack on Calvinism that aroused controversy.
Former Ireland boss Giovanni Trapattoni described the seeding system as the "death of football", while Republic goalkeeper Shay Given branded it "disgusting" and "totally unfair on the smaller nations" because the countries had already been seeded in their qualifying groups.
