# Words that sound dirty but actually aren't **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 31, 2016, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-sound-dirty-but-actually-arent/744739 "2016-01-31T11:14:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![WF\_Tomba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d9b06d/32.png) [@WF\_Tomba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WF_Tomba)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2016, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-sound-dirty-but-actually-arent/744739/41 "2016-01-31T20:05:02Z")
Annals Analyst Breaststroke Tongue-in-groove Ball-peen hammer ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2016, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-sound-dirty-but-actually-arent/744739/42 "2016-01-31T20:10:26Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > The way kids are taught to read and write now, their spelling is not corrected on their early paper, so as not to discourage them from writing. They are just supposed to sound out words, and write, write, write, with no comments on whether a spelling is “correct” or not. Seriously? 😕 Wow, that explains so much of the internet. Anyway, back on topic: Cummingtonite Farthing Seamen Head cheese ---
**Author:** ![WF\_Tomba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d9b06d/32.png) [@WF\_Tomba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WF_Tomba)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2016, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-sound-dirty-but-actually-arent/744739/43 "2016-01-31T20:11:52Z")
Djibouti Lake Titicaca Assawoman Bay ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2016, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-sound-dirty-but-actually-arent/744739/44 "2016-01-31T20:22:32Z")
> [@bibliophage](#): > > Uranus Also, [Mianus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mianus_%28neighborhood%29). ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2016, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-sound-dirty-but-actually-arent/744739/45 "2016-01-31T20:29:05Z")
Bung hole. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2016, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-sound-dirty-but-actually-arent/744739/46 "2016-01-31T21:03:29Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > Animal husbandry. Well, so long as they don’t catch you at it… Flocculate. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2016, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-sound-dirty-but-actually-arent/744739/47 "2016-01-31T21:23:23Z")
clump ---
**Author:** ![WF\_Tomba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d9b06d/32.png) [@WF\_Tomba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WF_Tomba)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2016, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-sound-dirty-but-actually-arent/744739/48 "2016-01-31T21:25:43Z")
People’s names: Lipschitz Buttafuoco Juan de Fuca Dick Butkus … and of course, who remembers the name of the mailman on _Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood_? ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2016, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-sound-dirty-but-actually-arent/744739/49 "2016-01-31T22:07:26Z")
> [@bibliophage](#): > > Uranus > [@Martian Bigfoot](#): > > Also, [Mianus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mianus_%28neighborhood%29). Also [Titan Uranus](https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/rbi-blogs/wp-content/uploads/mt/icisweb/blogs/icis-chemicals-confidential/titan%20uranus.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2016, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-sound-dirty-but-actually-arent/744739/50 "2016-01-31T22:17:30Z")
cockpit cummerbund shiitake [Fucking, Austria](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fucking,_Austria) ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2016, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-sound-dirty-but-actually-arent/744739/51 "2016-01-31T22:36:19Z")
Titular, as in: Dolly Parton is the titular head of Dollywood. ---
**Author:** ![snuffleupagus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e495f1/32.png) [@snuffleupagus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snuffleupagus)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2016, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-sound-dirty-but-actually-arent/744739/52 "2016-01-31T23:19:40Z")
At work (horticulture/botany), plants are often described as erect or semi-erect. I always feel slightly self-conscious saying it when speaking to a group. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2016, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-sound-dirty-but-actually-arent/744739/53 "2016-01-31T23:44:02Z")
Dickcissel (Bird) Humptulips (Place) ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-sound-dirty-but-actually-arent/744739/54 "2016-02-01T03:24:40Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > Balzac Dumas. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-sound-dirty-but-actually-arent/744739/55 "2016-02-01T04:55:33Z")
New Directions (the name of the school choir in the show _Glee_, and also the name of a program–unrelated to singing–in my school district) ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-sound-dirty-but-actually-arent/744739/56 "2016-02-01T16:26:12Z")
pool. ---
**Author:** ![edwards\_beard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7bcc69/32.png) [@edwards\_beard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/edwards_beard)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-sound-dirty-but-actually-arent/744739/57 "2016-02-01T17:24:27Z")
fingered ---
**Author:** ![stillownedbysetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@stillownedbysetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stillownedbysetters)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-sound-dirty-but-actually-arent/744739/58 "2016-02-01T17:30:02Z")
Interphallangelate ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-sound-dirty-but-actually-arent/744739/59 "2016-02-01T17:40:54Z")
Cockup (which is nothing sexual, it’s to do with old-fashioned guns, and trying to fire them with the safety-cock up, hence the meaning of a clumsy error). And let’s not forget Flange. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-sound-dirty-but-actually-arent/744739/60 "2016-02-01T18:08:31Z")
> [@edwards\_beard](#): > > fingered Fingering a minor (guitar practice). Related: G-string. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-sound-dirty-but-actually-arent/744739.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-sound-dirty-but-actually-arent/744739.md?page=4)