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This is what's known as the Scunthorpe problem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem


I was thinking of that, but I think that while it's in the same vein, there's also an additional problem.

Apart from that list missing non-English words, leet, and emoji, there are also plenty of words which can be innocent or dirty depending entirely on context: That list doesn't have "prick", presumably because someone read about why you're allowed to "prick your finger" but not vice versa.

Regarding Scunthorpe, looking at that word list:

> taste my

It's probably going to block cooking blogs and recipe collections.




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