Sometimes, you’ve got to love the oft-maligned BBC, such as in today’s news story “Swearing removed from kids’ book” where they somewhat delicately state:
In future editions, the offending word will be altered by one letter and replaced with “twit”.
Verily, I doff my cap to the writer who devised that most excellent turn of phrase.
Many thanks to Richard for laughing heartily when he read the original article
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