suggestive names

Mullins, Bill AMRDEC Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL
Sat Jun 10 19:36:25 UTC 2006


Another good example is the chain of bars "Fuddpuckers".
 

>*someone* must (he says, for the hundredth time or so) have collected
>names that are invented to sound indecent without being so, and/or to
>trip you into making a speech error with unfortunate consequences.
>
>
>is there a term for such names?  anyone studied, or at least
>collected, them?

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