I’ve been hearing an ad for a new gastric reflux drug. The name is AcipHex.
Ok, it denotes its pH control, but, the silly thing is pronounced “ass`effects.” Come on, that’s hysterical!
Maybe, I’m just juvenile enough to find it funny. 
You are not the only one to find things like that funny.
There is a pharmacy insurance coverage with the name “Pharmasses”.
I mean really. Did no one say that outloud.
i like it too, so i guess we’re both juvenile
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When life just blows. . . .Fukitol!
I noticed this, too. I had to wonder what they were thinking!
And I’m with you–I’ve got a juvenile sense of humor myself!
Might the name have been developed in a non-English speaking country? This is the most popular brand of generic acetylsalicylic acid here in Germany (as Aspirin is still trademarked here, you have to ask for Acetylsalicylsäure, or ASS at the pharmacy, or be sold the more expensive Aspirin by Bayer).
Good point, tschild. Apparently Rabeprazol is marketed by Janssen-Cilag, or Janssen Pharmaceutica, a Belgian company. So, this might have slipped through the cracks, indeed. Or, they were just thinking in neutral, scientific terms. As with those still perplexed over the fuss about Uranus. 
I’ve been taking this drug for a week… hadn’t even noticed.
Thanks.
Remember when many (all?) Sav-On drugstores were renames Osco? This is not an urban legend, like the Nova-car-in-Mexico (which sold quite well, and didn’t mean what Americans seemed to think it means).
Asco, a Spanish word that sounds almost identical, renders as “disgust” in Babelfish.
I take Aciphex, ironically enough because of the “ass effects” I was getting from Nexium.
It must have been approved many years ago- but sometimes I am surprised nobody has ever called for a boycott of Fosamax.
Good thing the folks at Viagra said the initial product name out loud, and subsequently changed it from Mycoxaphalin.
There is a suppository version. Jamitol.
I took it for several years and never noticed. However, I did notice that my doctor pronounced it “A”- ciphex. I always thought he was just weird (aciphex - acid), but maybe he felt uncomfortable saying the word “ass”.
An oldie but a goodie: Phenobarbitol. It may seem innocuous, maybe even vanilla. But to Emergency Medical Services, this drug is often pronounced Peanut Butter Ball.
And I feel sorry for those taking aciphex. It is ungodly expensive if you don’t have drug coverage with your insurance.
Pun intended? 
No, but that’s damn good!
There’s a weightloss supplement that goes by the name of Fücothin. They probably don’t intend the pronunciation to be the one I’ve chosen.