In 2018 the city of Zaandam, North Holland was dealing with a tempest in a teacup: a street called 'Hobo' (‘Oboe’) was turned into ‘Piccolo’ because folks said it sounded too much like 'homo', which is a homophobic slur, the equivalent of 'faggot'. 'Folks said' is not very clear, but city hall picked up on [...]