Bleeping and Dipping
Production teams may sometimes choose to bleep out or dip the sound on offensive language rather than edit it out of a programme. In these cases, it's important to ensure the sound is completely removed and that television viewers cannot see the offensive language being clearly "mouthed" by the speaker. Entertainment programmes may want to suggest the existence of offensive language by including the first and/or last syllables but this is not acceptable pre-watershed if audiences can easily understand what the offensive language is intended to be.