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scunthorpe problem

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.58 in modern English

Syllables
scun-thor-pe prob-lem
IPA
30
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
4
Syllables
13
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The unintentional blocking of harmless online content, such as emails, searches or accounts, by profanity filters or spam detectors, due to a substring resembling an obscene word.

Etymology

Named after the erroneous censorship of the word Scunthorpe, an English town, by the Internet service AOL, because it contained the substring cunt, resulting in most auto-censors rewriting it as S****horpe.

Inflected Forms

the Scunthorpe problem (canonical)

Questions

What does scunthorpe problem mean?
The unintentional blocking of harmless online content, such as emails, searches or accounts, by profanity filters or spam detectors, due to a substring resembling an obscene word.
Where does scunthorpe problem come from?
Named after the erroneous censorship of the word Scunthorpe, an English town, by the Internet service AOL, because it contained the substring cunt, resulting in most auto-censors rewriting it as S****horpe.

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