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I agree on principle, but I feel the next name will also be turned into another British slang term for sex offenders, if only because some lad will find it funny and become determined to see it through.

We are, after all, talking about the country that terrorized an Austrian town into changing its name after decades of sign theft and jokes [0]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugging,_Upper_Austria



It's also the language/dialect where you can basically used any phrase ending in -ed to mean "drunk". The classics being pissed, plastered, wankered. But if someone came up to me and said "I got (wardrobed|hadron-collidered) last night" I'd know exactly what they meant




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