the sensitivity of the original british title varies across nations, depending on their culture and which words are used to describe people by skin colour. in the us, the british title was considered offensive at first publication, and changed to the last line of the rhyme instead of its title. as the estate of agatha christie now offers it under only one title in english, "and then there were none", it is likely that new foreign-language editions will match that title in their language. the original title ("ten little niggers") still survives in a few foreign-language versions of the novel, and was used in other languages for a time, for example in dutch until the 1994 release of the 18th edition. the title "ten little negroes" continues to be commonly used in foreign-language versions, for example in spanish, greek, serbian, bulgarian, romanian, french and hungarian, as well as a 1987 russian film adaptation "десять негритят (desyat negrityat)". in 1999, the slovak national theatre staged the play under its original title but changed to "a napokon nezostal už nik" ("and then there were none") mid-run.