Accidental names are a standing hazard of trade, not a rare mishap. A word that is neutral in one language can be a vulgarity, a brand already taken, or simply a laugh in another, and the risk grows with every market a product enters. Larger firms run linguistic screening for exactly this reason; smaller ones discover the problem from photographs like this one.
The cases that circulate are usually the harmless kind — a shop sign, a confectionery wrapper, a model name that nobody checked outside its home market. The expensive ones never reach the archive, because they are renamed before launch. Anyone naming a product for export can borrow the same checklist: say it aloud in the target language, search it, and ask someone who lives there.
Swappin
Fish N' Chips
Too much drinking
Big cat
Tans
Dress to kill 3
Hope
The main difference between Europe and the USA