Relax. Here, have a cold drink.
Ask for it by name!
Then there’s Peniscola ( town in Spain)(perhaps the namers of Pensacola, Florida, didn’t dare.)
Welcome to Swastika, Ontario.
Besides Tits, there is an Indian mathematician named Dickshit. There was an Indian diplomat named Dixit and I wonder if in Hindi, they are the same name. There was a 19th century German mathematician named Killing and there is something called a Killing form in the theory of Lie algebras (named after Norwegian Sophus Lie). Don’t discuss the Killing form in an airport.
Is his first name Dick?
Years ago (many years) I read a book by H. Allen Smith, who was a popular humor writer of those fare-off days. He had once worked for a small town newspaper in Southern Illinois, and told in his book of an article that had appeared in it. There was a local, relatively well-off family with the last name of Cockburn, and one of their sons had just married, and had left with his new bride on a honeymoon trip.
The paper had a newish girl reporter who reported on this, and headlined her article “Cockburns off on wedding trip”
Mr. Smith said that after the paper came out, the reporter would never discuss this with anyone. Ever. No thank you very much.
He swore that this was a true story.
I swear the following is true: When I was in college, the campus ROTC was run by a gentleman by the name of Richard Head. He did indeed choose to go by the unfortunate nickname for Richard. Plus he was a military officer of a certain rank.
Major Dick Head.