Monday 13 October 2008

Will foul-mouthed Joe help break Guardian's annual 'f-word' record?

Bad language in The Guardian has shot up according to readers' editor Siobhain Butterworth in her column today. She reports that The Guardian carried the "f-word" 843 times in 2007 compared to 495 times in 2000 and only 33 times in 1985. Surely this record must be broken in 2008. The transcript The Guardian printed of the foul-mouthed rant at journalists by Newcastle United's caretaker boss Joe Kinnear, which it so graphically recorded here, must contain a year's worth of bad language in just one story.

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