Four-letter word words of this length are upsetting to some, for religious or personal sensitivity reasons, such as: "" (UK), "", "", "", and "" (UK). Racist, ableist, and slurs pertaining to an individual's sexual orientation may also qualify, such as "" (in the UK not a racial slur, but short for Mongol, or someone with Down syndrome - previously called Mongolism), "", "", "", "", "" and "". Several "four-letter words" have multiple meanings (some even serving as given names), and usually only offend when used in their vulgar senses, for example: "", "", "" (UK) and "" (UK). A borderline
Word search puzzles have, like crosswords and arrowords, been very popular in the United Kingdom, and - also in common with these latter puzzles - have had complete magazines devoted to them. Word searches are commonly found in daily newspapers and puzzle books. Some teachers use them as educational tools for children, the benefit being that young minds can learn new words and their spellings by intensively searching for them, letter by letter, in the puzzle. A common strategy for finding all the words is to go through the puzzle left to right (or vice versa) and look for the first letter