In this case, Apple has gone on the record and claimed it was not as simple as the developer claimed. Specifically: Apple advised the developer to wait until the age control limits were in place with v3, but the developer pressed on… but due to the time it takes to get published the app didn’t come out until v3 had shipped anyway.

By the way there are lots of paradoxes in Apple’s approach:
- iTunes sells music with explicit lyrics.
- iTunes sells movies with 18 certs.
- iTunes and the iPhone offers podcast downloads that are adult.
- Apple’s own Safari web browser on the iPhone itself offers access to the full breadth of web sites, including porn, and illegal content (not just adult).
etc. etc.

If I remember it right, Grandma Mole tells Adrian that she had always thought his mother to be a bit wanton. Actually, now I come to think of it, Adrian then looks it up in a dictionary and concludes that it’s ‘not nice’.

Now who was it exactly who was described as “wanton” by Sue Townsend? I can’t remember if it was Mrs Mole, Doreen “Stick Insect” Slater or Sharon Botts (who would reveal all for a packet of grapes or something).

In Odessa in the mid-90s a thick leather-bound “A-Z OF DIRTY ENGLISH” sold like hot-cakes from the table book-stalls of that city, and I dare say elsewhere too, to Russophone teenagers.

I also recall one of my pupils there, a rather prodigious 13 year old, having just had the new Collins Russian-English dictionary bought for him, and evidently first of all looking up English translations of “ХУЙ” (the most powerful and versatile word in the Russian language, as both Dostoevsky and Venedikt Yerofeyev made clear), made a point of greeting me at the next class by saying “You are from London, therefore you are a COCK-ney”, and talking about needles and pricks, and so on.

I once did it the other way round, making it clear to my students in Poland that “super duper” was an absolutely vital bit of English vocabulary that they couldn’t do without. Obviously not only because the 2nd word sounds like the Polish for “arse”