The residents of Dildo, Newfoundland have embraced the name, you can buy t-shirts that say Dildo and visit the historic Dildo museum
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“Fugging (German: [ˈfʊkɪŋ] (listen)), named Fucking until 2021, is an Austrian village in the municipality of Tarsdorf, located in the Innviertel region of western Upper Austria. The village is 33 km (21 mi) north of Salzburg and 4 km (2.5 mi) east of the Inn river, which forms part of the German border.
Despite having a population of only 106 in 2020, the village has drawn attention in the English-speaking world for its former name, which was spelled the same as an inflected form of the vulgar English-language word "fuck". Its road signs were a popular visitor attraction and were often stolen by souvenir-hunting vandals until 2005 when they were modified to be theft-resistant. The name change to Fugging, which is pronounced the same in the local dialect, was rejected in 2004 but passed in late 2020.”
Brown Willy, Cornwall.
Cock Alley, Calow.
Shitterton, Dorset.
Fanny Barks, Durham.
Fingringhoe, Essex.
Bitchfield, Lincolnshire.
Moisty Lane, Staffordshire.
Shitlingthorpe, Yorkshire.
The principle of the local primary school told us that the older name was “fingeringahoe” which if anything was worse!
Having grown up on Cock Street, I can confirm that they went to great lengths to make the sign theft-proof.
They often nearly succeeded.