The Times, October 13, 2017
Corny doesn’t begin to cover this headline. ‘Purrfect’ would have been old-fashioned in the 1950s. Other joke words which should never appear include pooch/mutt/moggy, boffin, toff, cad and jape. While on the topic of hoary rubbish, ‘egg’ or ‘eggs’ occasionally appears as a replacement prefix for ‘ex’, such as ‘eggcellent’ or ‘eggstraordinary’. There is not one variation that has not been used thousands of times, and they are all very tiresome.