Re Bugsy's post 3 back (slight drift, but hell, I'm OP so I can):

In the innocent days of the 1920s-30s, when Richmal Crompton published all those magazine stories of William Brown ['Just William'] & his friends The Outlaws, all reissued in book form until after her death in 1969, the word "couldn't" as pronounced by the 4 boys was always rendered as "cun't". I have always been amazed that nobody ever drew attention to this & alerted the publishers Newnes as to the unfortunate ambiguity.

William was to her in a way what Sherlock Holmes was to Conan Doyle ~ she published many ordinary 'adult' novels but it was ever the William stories she was known, & is now remembered, for.