New edition removes Mark Twain’s ‘offensive’ words

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Mark Twain wrote that "the difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter." A new edition of "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" and "Tom Sawyer" will try to find out if that holds true by replacing the N-word with "slave" in an effort not to offend readers. Twain scholar Alan Gribben said the N-word appears 219 times in "Huck Finn" and four times in "Tom Sawyer."