SIR – Let me challenge Brian Holmans’s letter (T&A, October 26) regarding the word ‘slut’.
I didn’t realise he was brought up in the back streets of Manningham in the 1940’s, where the word was used to describe a lazy untidy woman, and only that.
It was a word only used by other women, that is why Godfrey Bloom said it jokingly in front of women, causing them to laugh...get it! Even Nick Farage didn’t get it!
I really am not interested in ‘Roget’s Thesaurus of 1930’ because I was there.
Perhaps Mr Holmans can look up the word ‘gay’ in Roget’s book, and it will probably say ‘a fun lively colourful entertaining man, good company for ladies’.
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