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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
The unintentional blocking of harmless online content, such as emails, searches or accounts, by profanity filters or spam detectors, due to a substring resembling an obscene word.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
Named after the erroneous censorship of the word Scunthorpe, an English town, by the Internet service AOL, because it contained the substring cunt, resulting in most auto-censors rewriting it as S****horpe.
