Examples of the Scunthorpe Problem; mostly taken from Wikipedia:
- Nabokov's Lolita
- The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas (1982 film starring Burt Reynolds and Dolly Parton)
- Shitake mushrooms (shitakemushrooms.com)
- Montreal Urban Community (Communauté urbaine de Montréal) www.cum.qc.ca
- Cockburn (pronounced "Coburn")
- Specialist
- Callahan
- Dr. Herman I. Libshitz
- Natalie Weiner
- Anthony Weiner
- Ben Schmuck
- Arun Dikshit
- Super Bowl XXX
- Sussex (RomansInSussex.co.uk)
- Wessex
- Essex
- Middlesex
- Whakatane (pronounced "fuck-a-ta-nuh")
- Jiang (江)
- Glue guns
- Guns N' Roses
- Burgundy
- Medieval
- Javascript
- Jscript
- Vbscript
- Livescript
- eval
- mocha
- expression
- Sexual Offences Bill
- Horniman Museum (London)
- socialism
- socialist
- Dick Whittington (pantomime)
- Dick Hinch (NH)
- Dick Swett (NH)
- Dick Pound (IOC)
- erection (as in the structure)
- cock (as in rooster)
- tit (Parus major)
- shag (Gulosus aristotelis)
- booby (bird of genus Sula)
- The Beaver (magazine based in Winnipeg)
- faggots (Black Country dish)
- Penistone (South Yorkshire)
- Lightwater
- Clitheroe (Lancashire)
- Magna cum laude
- Tyson Gay (sprinter)
- Arsenal
- Canal
- ass (as in donkey)
- classic
- assignment
- assassinate
- Richard Gaywood
- VarusExpirationTimer.luaobj
- XerathMageChainsExtended.luaobj
- Summa Cum Laude
- Dominic Cummings
- bone
- pubic (as in pubis, the bone)
- stream
- Plymouth Hoe (Devon landmark)
- Bitche (French Commune)
- Rohrbach-lès-Bitche
- Weightwatchers
- Philip Sporn
- The Cock Bridge to Tomintoul Road
- McManus
- VarbitChanged
- Cofagrigus
- Jigglypuff
- Cumbria
- grapes
- GCRV 4654
- Tim Dickinson
- yoshitika
- MibbitChat
- Shelley
- Bitchute
- Lee Atwater
- Nosepass
- Probopass
- Froslass
- Falun (Swedish city)
- thomasfuchs
- saltwater
- Nwankwo Kanu (soccer player)
- Twatt (two separate towns in Scotland, one in Shetland, and one in Orkney)
- Nothing
- Uranus
Not your usual Scunthorpe; instead an attempt at language misdetection:
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(from here on out I'm searching /usr/share/dict/words and then cross-referencing against Wikipedia; WIP)
- words with "shit" as a substring:
- Bereshit (Torah reading) (sometimes spelled "Bereshith")
- brushite (phosphate mineral)
- Cushite (person from Cush or Kush) (also Cushitic)
- Elkoshite (Nahum 1:1)
- Girgashite (another biblical tribe)
- Marshite (mineral)
- shitepoke (heron)
- shittah tree (biblical) (see also: shittim, shittimwood)
- Washita River
- words with "cum" as a substring: too many to list; skipping
- words with "cock" as a substring: too many to list; skipping
- words with "cialis" as a substring: too many to list; skipping
- words with "allah" as a substring:
- ballahoo (alternate spelling of "ballyhoo", also the British ship HMS Ballahoo, sometimes also spelled "ballahou")
- boxwallah (term in India for either a street peddler or elite corporate executive)
- challah (Jewish bread, sometimes also spelled "hallah")
- gallah (type of cockatoo)
- kallah (traditional Talmudic teachers' convention)
- lootiewallah (term in India for one who engages in looting or marauding)
- mashallah ("God has willed it")
- inshallah ("God willing")
- nallah (type of valley, more commonly spelled "nullah" or "nala")
- pallah (alternate spelling of "impala" I guess?)
- topeewallah (doesn't appear to be an actual word, but it's in
/usr/share/dict/words, so...) - wallah (Indian surname or suffix)
- more terms with the "-wallah" suffix:
- dabbawallah
- chaiwallah
- dishwallah
- rickshawallah
- punkawallah
- lepwallah
- kabadiwallah
- robotwallah
- next substring to check: "weiner"