ON district councillor Liz Peters’ unfortunate use of the phrase ‘the n**** in the woodpile’ while speaking to a member of the public after a meeting of the licensing committee.

Posted by jaytee8937: It is a worry when you become an anachronism in your own lifetime.

Posted by struggling pensioner: I am deeply concerned since I have just found that the now unacceptable ‘n-word’ is clearly printed in our copy of the Oxford English Dictionary. Should I destroy the whole book or would it be politically correct just to tear out the offending page? This does however create a problem, since the ‘s-word’, as used by Jeremy Clarkson and many civil engineers is also in the dictionary.

Perhaps we should all ask for new politically correct dictionaries to be provided, paid for by the one or two people that manage to complain about racist comments.

Their names should also be published so that we may seek guidance from them when any other new word becomes offensive. The use of once acceptable words is now becoming a major problem.

Many listeners to Radio Gloucestershire will know of the fate of David Lowe, who accidentally played a 1930s record that contained the dreaded word. Note, he did not use the word, he just played a record containing. It is reported that just one complaint was received but this lost a gentleman his job. We used have justice in this country but now we have politically correct persons controlling our lives and thoughts.

Posted by Rock Cake: Clarkson loves controversy and regularly sails close to the wind generating such. He purposefully chose a rhyme for his TV show which he knew contained the ‘n-word’, and even though he half-heartedly mumbled that word when it came up, it was clear enough in both its use and intent to justify the complaints made to the BBC. I agree the DJ losing his job for playing The Sun Has Got His On was atrocious.