PROFS: PLEASE CALL US BOFFS
Daily Star|November 21, 2023
BOFFINS campaigning to ban the term "boffin" have finally, conreluctantly ceded it can be used - if the boffin in question likes being called a boffin.
HYWELL TREWYN
PROFS: PLEASE CALL US BOFFS

In a victory for the Daily Star, the clever clogs have issued a climbdown.

An executive at the Institute  of Physics conceded it was now a matter of "personal taste" Deputy chief executive Rachel Youngman, inset, said: "To be clear, the IOP isn't seeking to ban the word.

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