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Old 07-03-2015, 01:21 PM   #29
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Originally Posted by MikeB1972 View Post
But then you have a sliding slope as nowadays someone will be offended by anything and will change wording under the prefix that it is unacceptable usage, that kind of thing leads to reading Moby Phallus. And if you think that is far fetched how about the fact Agatha Christie's '10 Little Niggers' is now renamed as 'And then there were None' even in the UK.

Edit- Yes I know this is bowdlerisation rather that word usage but let us have some fun eschwartz
Publishers on either side of the ocean make it confusing too. Her murder on the orient express is also murder in the Calais coach I believe. The British and us publishers each had a different name for her books.
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