Another story goes that it came from a letter-writer to The Times or Daily Telegraph.

BBC: Disgust: How did the word change so completely?

He was a prodigious letter-writer, a fact of which Mr MacDonogh, in particular, has taken full advantage.

ECONOMIST: Historical biography

Jerry Sandusky's letter expanded on the rambling, 15-minute courtroom soliloquy that touched on everything from the writer Henry David Thoreau to "special inmate friends" to wet kisses from dogs.

CNN: Letters by Sandusky, wife blame everyone else