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Scunthorpe

Name: Scunthorpe
Address: GB

53.5809°N -0.6502°W · Q913386

One English word in this atlas traces back to Scunthorpe. It sits in United Kingdom.

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Scunthorpe problemnoun · 1996

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A whole class of software bug is named after a Lincolnshire town's spelling.

In 1996 AOL's obscenity filter refused to let residents of Scunthorpe register accounts at all, because of the four letters sitting in the middle of the name. The same trap has since caught surnames, other place names, and scientific terms on search engines and social platforms.

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