Cartoonist Keith Knight (under the name Keef), in his K Chronicles of April 27, uses a scheme for avoiding taboo words that was new to me: (Thanks to Ben Zimmer for an improved image of the strip.) The strip was circulated under the title “Sh_tless Babies”, which uses the common technique of an avoidance character … Continue reading Annals of taboo avoidance: the white rectangle of modesty