In reply to:

the rather rude "You twat!" - which, interestingly enough, is pronounced differently in the UK - where they make it rhyme with "cat" - from how it is pronounced in (scary loaded word coming up) the colonies, where it rhymes with "what."

However it's pronounced, I cannot forbear from bringing to the Board's notice Robert Browning's use of the word in his poem Pippa Passes:

Then, owls and bats,
Cowls and twats,
Monks and nuns, in a cloister's moods,
Adjourn to the oak-stump pantry!

When this was queried by his publisher, Browning in all innocence said that it was an item of nun's headgear, citing a 17th century ditty, where unfortunately it meant just what you'd expect but the poet had taken a wild guess at the meaning from context.


Bingley


Bingley