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"Daily gameshow Countdown grabbed attention this afternoon when a middle clutch of letters pulled out for the board spelled the word &amp;quot;MINGE&amp;quot;. Twitter was all a flutter, and thankfully in the age of catch-up TV it was very easy to pop on to 4OD and see it for ourselves.   To think that only this morning, Rachel Riley claimed that &amp;quot;you can&amp;#039;t have blatant filth&amp;quot; on the show. She was clearly lying. The winning combination from this round was actually the word &amp;quot;MINGERS&amp;quot;, with Suzi Purcell beating Elaine Rhodes to the seven points. Asked about the indelicate word popping up, Channel 4 said: &amp;quot;We have it on good authority that the word &amp;#039;minge&amp;#039; is in the Oxford Dictionary. &amp;quot;Just goes to show that as a Countdown viewer you learn something every day.&amp;quot; Of course, it&amp;#039;s not the first time a less-than-dinner-table-friendly word has made it on to the programme. Earlier this year, Mark indulged himself, winning six quick points with &amp;quot;W**KER&amp;quot;. A couple of years ago, however, both contestants were too coy to rearrange U, D, F, C, K and E. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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