SIR – In response to Mr Holmans’s rather disingenuous criticism of my ‘sluts’ joke (Letters, October 9), if he cares to look in the Oxford Dictionary of English he will see of the word slut is termed ‘slovenly’.
The context in which I used it. Any other context the joke would not have worked. As it clearly did by the laughter it engendered by all present including the women.
Godfrey Bloom MEP, Main Street, Wressle, Selby
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