The Indo's word wheel today is … oh dear

Well. That's REALLY rude.

Now, be warned, if you don't like very, very bad language, you might not want to scroll down the page.

No, really: it's the worst word.

Today's Irish Independent published a rather rude little puzzle in the back pages, much to the delight of enthusiastic word-watchers everywhere (and probably the horror of many a newspaper reader).

And it looked like…

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Oh no, we hear you cry. Literally any other word would have been better.

This little gem of a failure was first spotted by Frank Fitzgibbon, Editor of The Sunday Times in Ireland, and we're sure he took no joy in the Independent's misfortune at all.

Today's Word Wheel quiz in the Irish Independent. I'm still struggling to get a single word.., pic.twitter.com/QlaB5HL9ea

— Frank Fitzgibbon (@SoFrankFitz) April 25, 2014

The sub-editor in charge of puzzles is being frowned at, we're sure.

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Spotted by Frank Fitzgibbon, via The Daily Edge.