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* English dialect case: [[wikipedia:Electrolux#Slogan|"Nothing sucks like an Electrolux."]] Though this bit of [[Double Entendre]] was intentional.
** [http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MPVFXHtCKsA/Suy2jBU928I/AAAAAAAAAoc/fe50Kwah_f8/s400/FILE0905.JPG Similarly...]
* The American [[Syfy]]Sci-Fi Channel, later just "Sci Fi", changed their name to [[Syfy]], which in Polish slang is a colloquialism for syphilis and is also used as an derogatory indicator of extremely low quality, an equivalent to English 'crap'.
** Something not at all lost on Americans who dislike the change, some of whom have taken to calling it the "Syphilis Channel".
* The webpages of a woman named [[wikipedia:Ziva Kunda|Ziva Kunda]] were popular amongst Czech and Slovak teenagers, as her name translates to "a living cunt".