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Looks like it doesn't handle the Scunthorpe Problem - http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ScunthorpeProblem .

Totally open for suggestion on how to fix this - right now I'm using regex and a list of "profane" words, so nothing too fancy. But I'm interested in looking into solutions for this problem.

There is no easy solution. Look at that TVTropes page for a long list of failure cases.

This approach is at least 20 years old. Others have worked on it. Try investigating one or more of https://github.com/topics/profanity .

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