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Nintendo Scrabble Teaches Kids Dirty Words, UK Mom Says


Tonya Carrington claims that the Nintendo version of Scrabble has taught her eight-year-old son Ethan dirty words, UPI reports.

After reading the label on the game's box, which qualified it as suitable for young children, Ms. Carrington brought the game home in hopes of expanding her son's vocabulary.

Undoubtedly, the game did expand Ethan's vocabulary, but not in the way his mother had wished; in its very first game against Ethan, the Scrabble computer offered up the word "tits."

Shocked, Ms. Carrington played round after round of the game, herself, finding a number of cuss words. In response to this story, a Nintendo spokesman claimed that fault resided with Ubisoft, the game's publisher.

Since his mother has relieved him of the game, and since technology is a little uptight about cussing these days, we can only assume that Ethan has resumed doing what curious pre-adolescent boys have been doing since the dawn of time: thumbing through the dictionary, nervously giggling the whole time, while dawdling on that page between "ask" and "asteroid." [From: UPI]

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