[throwaway999666]

The language and ideas behind it seems pretty serious. But they might consider pissing off particularly prudish Americans to be a bonus.

[justinpombrio]

A few timid speakers will mispronounce it like "coke", but everyone knows they're saying it wrong.

[eli_gottlieb]

It's pronounced identically to "caulk", though, not "cock".

[Afton]

In my idiolect, those two words are homonyms. When I worked construction, you couldn't ask someone for caulk without raucous laughter.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/caulk

this link seems to agree, with the word represented in IPA as [kɔːk]

[davidgrenier]

Not 100% confident on how people pronounce "cock" but it's definitely not close to "caulk".

Being a french speaker, I would say pronunciation is closer to "puck" with a k, so go with "Kuck".

[davidgay]

More like somewhere in between, really.

[innguest]

More information about who in the US has and hasn't merged those two sounds: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonological_history_of_Englis...

It's the cot-caught merger.

[cjensen]

Intentionally pissing off people is childish.

Using the name of this language in a workplace creates a hostile working environment[1]. That guarantees that no sensible person in the English speaking world will ever use the language at work.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostile_work_environment

[throwaway999666]

> Using the name of this language in a workplace creates a hostile working environment[1].

Oh my, thanks for the laugh. I half imagined a Dilbert scenario when reading that.

It's weird to think of the simultaneous uptightness and childishness which would make it impossible to use this homonym in the proper context.