Because it sounds like rape
Same way of thinking got GitHub to try and replace master, for something else like mercurial's main. Having master in the context nothing to do with slavery.
I get someone might be sensible to some words, but I don't see why someone else should keep a list of possible -not good- works declared and updated by the mob mafia of twitter and social media.
Incidentally, unlike "rapier", words like "raptor" and "rapture" are directly related to the word "rape". These words can be clearly traced back to ancient Greek (meaning something like 'to seize violently'), and perhaps beyond.
Just my $0.02. :-)
(2) Not really; the nomenclature and its history is more interesting than that.
(3) The seed is still called rapeseed.
(4) Why was that not the intended point?
2) it played a role [https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1989-10-12-890122...]
3) the sword is still called rapier
4) because it doesn't serve as a logical foil for aforementioned reasons. If anything it just shows a nice analogous response.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/22/canada-tisdale....
There obviously could have been myriad reasons. Also, Aldi ran into a similar issue with rape:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/03/25/aldi-forced-to-c...
Do you have a source? Wikipedia lists a different reason, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canola_oil:
> The change in name serves to distinguish it from natural rapeseed oil, which has much higher erucic acid content.
Rope, rap, rapper, crepe, paper, wrapper, rapid...
There's no point getting on a high horse about people being adults, etc. Marketing and advertising empirically work, and not because people are stupid. A lot of time and money is spent thinking up good names and trying to avoid names with embarassing connotations.
If a bunch of native English speakers are telling you that the name sounds bad to native English speakers, then it's worth at least considering rather than dismissing.
EDIT> Reminds me of Rational Rose .petal files.
Also, why am I wasting time responding? But it is fascinating the extents to which people seem to almost purposefully misunderstand each other online. I sometimes like to explore the space I guess.
Ignoring that it's usually pronounced Uran-us rather than Ur-anus, really? I spend a lot of time around physicists and astrophysicists and I think you can probably guess how much of an issue this is (or for any adults)