Bronk
Yeah, that bit is great. That line has popped into my head every time I’ve seen or heard the words ‘urges’ and ‘areas’ going on 30 years, now.
Rectory
and while we’re at it, Jewish kids think it’s hysterical that Christians sit in “pews.”
As a math teacher, I encourage my students to be quite sophomoric about the word “asymptote” and use it as an insult to their friends.
There is an IOC member whose name really is Dick Pound, and there’s a local urologist named Dr. Dick Tapper. The latter is getting old and his practice has expanded to include a Dr. Wang.
Oh, “frigate.” As in, “There is no frigate like a book,” by Emily Dickinson. Don’t teach that poem to middle schoolers.
How come nobody wrote “MASTICATION” [COLOR=Black][FONT=Arial][SIZE=1]?[/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR]
The Brits are a lot more fun when it comes to naming stuff. There are three different roads where I used to live in S. Indiana called That. So you have to be careful, because one is That Lane, one is That Road, S., and one is That Road, E. At one point they were all “That Road,” and just the numbering schemes distinguished them, and none were very long, but as they all got longer, it got to be a headache. Apparently, none wanted to be renamed, though.
Yeah, that should have been, like, the third post in a thread like this.
In case Mangetout is being too subtle, here’s post #3:
Not an English word, mufti
I knew a Lesbian once whose last name was Cocks. Not even “Cox”; “Cocks.” Cripes. Lesbian or straight, if that were my last name, I sure as heck would have spelled it “Cox.”
titmouse
nuthatch (both in the tit family)
Love Canal
Titillate
F-hole (the sound holes on certain string instruments)
Oh for god’s sake. I meant to say BRONX.
kumquat
For Japanese aficionados, furikake.
Scunthorpe (bonus for having the letters C U N and T in a row, leading to the Scunthorpe problem.
This is actually a problem for many Japanese family names, e.g. Takeshita, Matsushita.
My grandma’s maiden name was Cocks. Also reminds me of an episode of Scrubs in which Dr. Cox’s wife was telling a friend about how she was quite happy to dump her maiden name, exclaiming “I love Cox!” 
The Journal of Analytical Toxicology. What’s dirty about that, you ask? Its official abbreviation:
J. Anal Tox
Seamen