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Ha. Similarly a friend once told me that in days of yore she worked at a place where “postits” (as in, will you please order some more postits) was automatically transformed to “post*ts” in their intra-office chat system.


See also the "Scunthorpe Problem":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem


I hadn't heard of this; thanks! Also made me think of Jimmy Kimmel's Unnecessary Censorship bit.




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