7:04pm UK, Monday December 06, 2010
A Government minister has become the third high-profile figure in a matter of hours to publicly broadcast a swear-word beginning with 'c'.
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Policing minister Nick Herbert intended to say the word "cuts" in the House of Commons.
Instead, he used a four-letter expletive beginning and ending in the same letters.
Amid gales of laughter, Speaker John Bercow insisted other MPs' hearing was "playing tricks with them" and they "didn't hear what they thought they heard".
Mr Herbert's mistake came shortly after two prominent BBC broadcasters used the same word.
Radio 4 Today presenter Jim Naughtie misspoke when he tried to introduce the Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt.
Later, Andrew Marr was discussing his colleague's gaffe and the nature of Freudian slips when he repeated the same mispronunciation of Mr Hunt's name.
Good humoured: Jeremy Hunt said the mistake made him laugh
Mr Marr even said: "We're not going to repeat [Mr Naughtie's mistake] in quite the terms it happened," before going on to accidentally do just that.
But Mr Hunt took it in good humour. "They say prepare for anything before going on Today but that took the biscuit," he wrote on Twitter.
"I was laughing as much as you Jim or should I say Dr Spooner," he added, in a reference to the man who gave rise to the term "spoonerism".
This was not the end of the BBC's woes, Sky's political editor Adam Boulton blogs.
Describing December 6 as the "new April 1st", Boulton writes that the World At One radio programme thought it was interviewing the Liberal Democrat MP Mike Crockart.
But in fact, the person they were quizzing about university fees was in imposter and Mr Crockart is yet to make up his mind about how he will vote.
"Now anybody can make mistakes," Boulton writes, "Lady Bracknell, Auntie Beeb personified, must be wetting herself over this triple carelessness."
The BBC has apologised to Mr Crockart and said the phone telephone number had been listed in its directory of MPs' contact details.
It is believed the impersonator inherited the MP's old number.
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