[wyattpeak]

I'm sure it happens, but I don't usually hear names with unfortunate meanings discussed in terms of offence or respect, but much more practical concerns: inability to get the culture to take the name seriously, inability to register a business, that sort of thing.

I'm not going to get strident at a Swedish company trying to launch a product called "slut", but at the same time I'm going to have trouble taking it seriously, and I'm probably not going to recommend it to anyone.

[OJFord]

So if a Swedish company creates a revolutionary pesticide called 'BugSlut', you'll have no qualms recommending it to your green-fingered elderly relatives?

[solstice]

Just put an ü or ø in there somewhere. Problem solved.

/s

[wyattpeak]

I think you may have misinterpreted my comment, I said the opposite of that.

[OJFord]

Ah sorry, I'd meant to reply to the same comment you did, making the same point really.