@clacke @mrundkvist Nope - I only heard about that one via someone who had reviewuated the situation and posted a summary on a blog or something like that.

@seraph @pluralistic Good grief, it’s the Yahoo “medireview” bug all over again. You know the one: Yahoo replaced potentially dangerous JavaScript commands with more innocuous synonyms in emails. As a global search and replace, with no regard for context (like spaces or punctuation). “eval” got replaced with “review”, and all of a sudden, people interested in history from 500 to 1500 years ago were reading about “medireview” topics.

*Twenty-three years ago.*

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/medireview

@prefetcher This list needs to include YES and NO for maximum cursedness.

I recently posted about how I once worked with a language that aliased the strings "YES" and "NO" to Boolean true and false, and how this kept fscking up user account info from users who were coming from Norway.

@NamelessCynic @aprilfollies This is an unambiguous case where the UK English name for this stuff (“washing-up liquid”) is vastly superior to the US name (“dish soap” or “dish detergent”).