Jan 15, 2011

Q.107

Alan Gribben, a professor of English at an Alabama, US university, is coming out with a new edition of the Mark Twain books "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" and "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer". This has kicked up a lot of fuss, because the word 'nigger' is to be replaced by 'slave' in the books. One more word is also to be replaced with something less offensive, which is also the prefix of a character in the Tom Sawyer book. Which word?

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