Friday saw the start of the Chinese new year, with this being the year of the horse. Unfortunately the BBC News’ subtitle system didn’t understand the memo quite right, and instead declared this the ‘year of the whores,’ too much the embarrassment of the channel, Independent reported.
“Welcome to the year of the whores. People around the globe celebrate,” read the subtitles.
Noticing the blunder, a number of eagle eyed viewers were able to quickly grab a screenshot and post it on Twitter.
This isn’t the first time the BBC’s subtitles have had somewhat of a malfunction, the Archbishop of Canterbury has been referred to as the “Arch bitch of Canterbury”, while during coverage of the Queen Mother’s funeral there was a call for “a moment’s violence”.
