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I agree...this guy deserves the $50. Knol sucks, but at least - by merely looking at it - you can sorta pronounce it right.

Good luck with anyone getting "cool" from "cuil". My first thought was "quill"?

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And in french it sounds like couilles ,which means bollocks.

I thought someone else said that it sounds like a French word for rear end.

Do all the French words for naughty body parts sound the same, or what?

A little bit of both depending on how you read it. If you do not pronounce the "i" it definitely says rear end.

Unfortunately, I can remember cuil because of the "pronounce like cool, or kewl" tagline. It is just as annoying as Xobni (Inbox backwards...). I wish I could think of names like that that nobody forgets after first hearing them.

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