Twit for Twat

As reported by the Guardian, Random House is responding to complaints by removing allegedly inappropriate language from Jaqueline Wilson's latest novel, My Sister Jodie, which is geared towards children ten years old and older. My Sister Jodie has sold 150,000 copies in the U.K. since its publication last March, including 28,000 through Asda, the supermarket chain that "is now in the process of withdrawing it from stores" until the reprint is available. A spodesperson from Random House comments, "The word 'twat' was used in context. ... It was meant to be a nasty word on purpose, because this is a nasty character. However, Jacqueline doesn't want to offend her readers or her readers' parents, so when the book comes to be reprinted the word will be replaced with twit."