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Comment by mh-cx | Hacker News Reader

I have not heard about "Wix" before, but maybe they should have done some more research before picking this name. To a German this sounds like "wichsen" which means, well, "wank"[1].

[1] http://dict.leo.org/ende/index_de.html#/search=wichsen

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As a neighbor (Dutch) I can totally understand it and I still laugh pretty much every time I hear flickr[1]. Still, if I finally found a cool name for my project after a long search (it often is), I'm not going to cancel it just because it "sounds like" penis in Arabic or something.

http://www.woorden.org/woord/flikker (tl;dr: homosexual)

they picked the similarity to the german word "wichsen" in their campaign in germany... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AKDZmsy5yo it says "everyday million of people are wanking – wanking changed my live – when my girlfriend felt asleep, i'm going to wank – i love wanking – my wife convinced me to wank – i'm wanking after my training – to be honest, we wank together most of the times – wanking is the future" and the hardest/badest part is the last sentence "make it by yourself – be a wanker"

Not only is this completely off-topic, they are a publicly traded company NASDAQ: WIX and they are currently valued at ~$1B.

Then please forgive my ignorance. I was not aware that they are so big. Even more though I'm surprised about their name. Reading it really feels weird to me.

We did hear about it, if a bit late.

Our response - https://vimeo.com/138432267

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