Mary Poppins has had its age rating lifted from U to PG because it contains “discriminatory language”. Yet the word in question is so obscure you probably never noticed it. The Mail has more.

The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) now considers the 1964 tale of Julie Andrews’s magical nanny to be not suitable for children to watch alone, despite the film enchanting generations of youngsters.

The reclassification is due to the use of the word Hottentots. The dated term was historically used by Europeans to refer to the Khoekhoe, a group of nomadic herders in South Africa, but is now regarded as racially offensive.