B is for buttocks....

Hey Clive, you can have all those pneumo-whatevers in there... I don't mind. Just so long as the new OED has all those embarrassing words on the top corners in bold, just like it always has had, then put you can put our school down for one. I reckon including all these (dare I say?) 'obscure' words is just a way of padding out the contents to ensure that you still get words like penile at the top of the 'p-e-n' page, and masticate at the top of the 'm-a-s' page! Funny that. There must just be a real art to creating such a compendium of school-boy titters under the pretence of formulating a literary work of real educational value!!

Actually it's just occurred to me that there are probably more 'dodgy' or genuinely offensive words in the OED than in an average copy of a Jilly Cooper novel! - not that I have ever read any of the latter, but it's a thought. The only difference is that the OED doesn't offend whereas just the cover of one of Jilly's novels is enough to make the local vicar blush. I presume it will be the dark Oxford blue with the red and the green stripe as the fly-sheet livery? Or perhaps you have something a little more eye-catching?