SIR: Dear old Fred Dibnah is at it again! Good old Fred, we all say. But your BEN reader Graham Baxter has really taken offence at Fred's non-dictionary word "pillock".
Your paper no doubt has a very wide circulation, but not such a viewer circulation as the TV show Last of the Summer Wine with the well-loved actor, Bill Owen, who plays Compo, the fellow who keeps ferrets. Many, many millions of folk have heard Bill Owen calling folk a "right old pillock" many, many, many times.
As the BEN Editor Postscripts in Mr Baxter's letter the word complained of is accepted as a contemporary slang word, so our TV viewers should now switch off when the Last of the Summer Wine is shown?
(Thanks to Bolton's Joan and Ken Bath for sending the cuttings.)
Amy and Neville Mosley
(both OAPs)
East Avenue, Bournemouth
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