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The Register has obtained a list of the rudest words you'll never see on car number plates: the official list of banned registration marks from the Drivers and Vehicles Licensing Authority (DVLA). We almost don't want to sully the pure reputation of our website by publishing all the combinations of letters and numbers on our …

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Hermaphrodite?

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    2. Ken Hagan Gold badge
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      The spare, for when "a" is unavailable?

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  2. My backside

    Through the rear-view mirror

    It only works when seen through the rear-view mirror, but my favorite it is 3MTA3.

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  3. Warren
    Devil

    Seen OO04 COX on the roads in Hampshire, driven by a young lady, who I wondered if she chose it on purpose?

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  4. sabba
    Gimp

    Until recently...

    ...some dunkett drove around a nameless northern town in a Ferrari with the reg plate H1 1 LAY. I haven't see it for a while so hopefully he has been removed from the gene pool.

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Yep

      A white 2001 360 Spider

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  5. Cornholio

    They generally just annoy me

    If it's not obvious, they generally just make me cross. However, I remember a local one when I was a lad:

    BAL 521T

    The owner had thoughtfully put a sticker in his window to help those who needed it:

    BALS 2 IT

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  6. Ted Treen
    Pint

    GSOH

    Years ago, I saw can old MKII Granada (low on its wheels) being driven around Brum by a very rotund gentleman; the vehicle sporting FAT 61T...

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  7. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Was there a question?

    There used to be a matched pair of Bentley Continentals parked in Chelsea with the registrations "2 BE" and "NOT 2B".

    Also saw "ELG 4R" on a Range Rover on the M40 just the other day.

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    1. Alex Rose
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      They are still there...

      ...at least the plates are, last time I went past they were on a Bentley and an Aston.

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  8. John Brown (no body) Silver badge

    offensive words?

    Saw a blue Subaru the other day with F11CKA

    I thought maybe the driver liked horses but reading here indicates that it might be something else.

    The A was spaced out and I guess the texting generation and the vanity bitches see the 11 as a U

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      F11CKA = "ficker" = "thicker"

      as in, two short planks.

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  9. miknik
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    The clever ones are the best

    I knew a guy who had K9 0RBS with the text underneath reading "The Dogs Bollocks", it always made me smile.

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  10. rpics
    WTF?

    I confess

    I have a 4wd that I use for getting lost in the bush - the plate says WTFAMI

    The 'W' can be Where or What or Who?

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  11. tony trolle
    Happy

    BTW bollocks

    Sex Pistols at Nottingham's Magistrates Court in 1977, proved "bollocks" was not obscene.

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  12. The Dark Lord

    Nannying

    Up here in Edinburgh, the entire class "SN07" was not issued because someone in the DVLA thought "snot" was offensive.

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  13. A J Stiles

    I once saw

    "D141TAL" -- with an "open" 4 very carefully stylised to look a little bit like a capital G.

    Actually, I used to see it quite a lot. This was around the time that registration was current. I'm showing my age now. (Where's the pipe and slippers icon when you need one?)

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  14. Giles Jones Gold badge

    Never seen the point of such registrations. If you want everyone to know you're a "B00B" (a reg plate I've seen) then put a sticker in the back window.

    Given how few traffic police there are around you could probably just put a fake plate on with whatever you like. I've seen enough plates with illegal fonts and altered characters to think that nothing is being done about them. I can only assume these people don't have an MOT or swap the plate over (why bother, do you not have anything better to do?).

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  15. MJI Silver badge

    I knew of a few

    Back in A reg times, a local BMW dealer grabbed a lot of plates.

    I remember such ones as A323BMW on a ... BMW 323i I think they managed most of the models.

    Seen A1 LBW - used to be a sponsor car for a cricketer, last saw with a white bloke & suit on a Cavalier, rather than black bloke in cricket whites on a base level 3 series.

    Also seen MY 750 on a BMW 750.

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  16. Mostor Astrakan

    You English are rude...

    I think I should mention that where you brits require four letters to refer to man- or ladyparts, the Dutch require only three. Have I seen them proudly adorning cars? Why yes, yes I have.

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  17. takuhii

    Sorry I don't get the VA61 NOB one... VAG NOB? Might have been funnier as VA61 NAA

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  18. Atilla the Hun (No relation)
    IT Angle

    Plate spinning

    I confirm the Bentleys in Chelsea, still look out for them on my occasional jaunts into the Smoke.

    Some considerable number of years ago I nearly fell off my motorbike when passing FU2 on the Hammersmith Flyover - believed to be owned at the time by a Fiona Richmond?

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  19. bigben

    J1 HAD or J11 HAD....

    ....used to be on a pimped Transit in the student areas of Manchester circa 1997

    My mate has C1LNT spaced to look like possibly the rudest of all swear words, never figured out why.

    Ben

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  20. Lamont Cranston

    I've seen

    B13 ELM, which struck me as offensive.

    I've also seen 404 LOL, but couldn't decide whether to laugh or cry, at that.

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  21. itzman

    my all time favorite

    was a dolled up busty blond driving a top-of-the range convertible merc..as it roared past me I noted the number plate

    CUP 38 D

    I always wanted W1TCH but the going rate was £50k...

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  22. Chris Miller

    Seen on M3

    FAG60T

    Out and proud?

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  23. Reliquary
    WTF?

    Wow; someone obviously missed the memo at the DVLA for all the cars in South Oxon with the licence plates starting BJ08... examples seen include BJ08 BAA, BJ08 GRL, BJ08 BAR etc, etc.

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  24. Anonymous Coward
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    Pathetic

    Yet more make-work for the armies of otherwise unemployable civil servants.

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  25. Steve the Cynic

    In the early days of XX##XXX....

    I once saw a lorry operated by a firm called Cosi-Bed, with the plate CO51 BED.

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  26. Mips
    Childcatcher

    Also out in the wild

    Seen as W32GAY. On a pink Lexus Soarer (yes I know there is no such thing except it is popular in the pink community).

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    1. chops
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      I applied to the DVLA for W4NKR when W registrations were released in the UK (1999?), but received a polite rejection letter.

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  27. Anonymous Coward
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    One I saw for sale on eBay years ago...

    was S1HTE. They must have missed that one...

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  28. graham crocker

    Get A Doctor!

    Some examples seem incredibly obscure - Sorry I mean VA6E.

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  29. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    I've saw N1ERD recently on the M25

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  30. Alan Scott

    Got a pic of a local drainage firm van whose reg was WH05 HAT. Thought that was quite a good one.

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  31. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    TA12DISTA12DISTA12DISTA12DISTA12DISTA12DISTA12DISTA12DIS

    For all you ones going on and on about 'ME WANT TA12DIS!!!!111ONELOLZ'

    This is NOT an allowed plate format in the GB system. 'I' is reserved for NI plates, and will not be seen on the ABnn CDE format plates. ('Z' is, however, now allowed).

    The closest you might get might me 'TA12 DSS' or similar.

    Once saw L18NUX for £250, considered it. L1NUX was going for £25k.

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  32. annodomini2
    FAIL

    They missed one

    On an 11 plate Skoda Fabia

    WA 11 KER

    And yes it had a black screw dot between the 11.

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  33. Richard Scratcher
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    A few years ago I saw a BMW with the plate: M1 NGE.

    I would support a ban though and even help compile a list of naughty words - if the money was right (I can't afford too much at the moment).

    I was giving my Mother a lift one day and we stopped at the lights behind a big 4x4 with a camouflage paint job and monster truck tyres. "Oh look!", she said. "That car's got a number plate that says big gun." It actually read B16 CUN but I decided not to correct her.

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  34. Steve Evans

    Shoooorly...

    Surely any gang member that wishes to advertise his membership via his numberplate should be encouraged?

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  35. Julian 3

    Class number plate I spotted last week was Y2 CUM and SUC 808Y (suck bobby) is another one ive seen!

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  36. Anonymous Coward
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    Rotten sods...

    Wouldn't let me have C11NTS, I tried to explain I'm called Clint but they still wouldn't wear it, I mean, it's not as if you could read it any other way....

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  37. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    F4CK0FF.

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  38. No, I will not fix your computer
    Joke

    I want a personalised numberplate

    Can't afford one so, instead, I'm going to change my name to RWV 94X

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  39. Secret geek

    Seen yesterday...

    D11K ED

    Nuff said I think.

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  40. SoggyRock
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    no censor here!

    in the enlightened Isle of Man we must be far too innocent, ranging from MAN 1C to MAN 1A, a perennial classic - 8008 MAN, and of course the reverse for the brave. For the down at heel it's gotta be - MAN 61E. I'm sure H1 MAN is out there somewhere, but my personal favourite is one Vicars ride which in these apparent times of strife remains unmolested - MAN 4 60D, every journey has the potential to bring a smile with the creative slanting and spacing, until they are brought back into line by the boys in blue.

    Fittingly, being a motorsport heaven we've also got F457 MAN

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