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Indeed, imagine the horror all the English speakers have when the come to Netherlands and are offered verse munt thee!

How silly those Dutch are for inventing a word before English existed, and then continuing to use it today even when apparently a sliver of the English speakers of the world think it means something bad.

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Well, if it's being marketed to an English speaking audience, they will need to consider whether the name has negative connotations regardless of where it originated.

American companies have to be sensitive to this when expanding into new markets too.

Although, occasionally, they make mistakes. Coca-cola tried to sell water with a campaign that declared it 'bottled spunk', in the early 00's. Spunk, in english english, means semen.

That's the problem. If you look broadly enough, you will find someone who is offended by some of your words. You will never get everyone to agree on what is "ok".

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