Jaqueline Wilson | The Bookseller

Twit for twat

Publication Date: Thu, 28/08/2008 - 10:03

What is the difference between a twat and a twit? Quite a lot, it would seem, to the folk at Random House who have agreed to reprint future editions of Jacqueline Wilson’s novel My Sister Jodie replacing one with the other. A twit, of course, is a 1930s word meaning a foolish person and is perhaps derived from nitwit. A twat, on the other...

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