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One of my favorite example of this kind of oversight is the audi "e-tron" : in french, an "étron" is literally a turd... (it seems that this website doesn't catch it yet though)

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I tried the classic blunder "Buick Lacrosse" which sounds exactly like "Buick the Scam" in Québécois. This tool does not understand Québécois.

Buick's a pretty disgusting onomatopoeia in and of itself. As in "Ordering Buicks over the big white porcelain telephone".

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