Channel 4's evergreen daytime quiz show Countdown can be relied upon to throw up the odd rude word now and again – and Wednesday's edition didn't disappoint. Contestant Elaine Rhodes went with: "MINGE". All that's needed is another an "A" and an "I" perhaps and we get the word imagine – a round-winning seven letters. Right? Wrong! Sadly the winning combination was "MINGERS", supplied by Elaine's opponent Susie Purcell. A Channel 4 spokeswoman tells Monkey that a much ruder word was also available. "We have it on good authority that the word 'minge' is in the Oxford Dictionary – just goes to show that as a Countdown viewer you learn something every day," she says. Indeed it does.
