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Article: British twitter on if a twat is the same as a twit
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- The Hindustan Times
- Article date:
- August 22, 2008
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London, Aug. 22 -- Britons are far from being prudes when it comes to salacious writing. They have the entire Victorian era to swear by. Using a questionable vowel in a four-letter word normally does not cause panic, unless it appears in a book for children.
Jacqueline Wilson has arrived at this literary truth the hard way.
One of Britain's best selling authors has been made to look foolish after a woman decided she will not have her grand-niece read Wilson's "My Sister Jodie" when she found that the four-letter word, twit, appears later in the text as twat.
A misprint or not, the woman's complaint has led the book's ...
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