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Yes, that's a clbuttic.

http://thedailywtf.com/articles/The-Clbuttic-Mistake-

That was 12 years ago, and sadly the Google link to searching for the word now links to countless articles about the phenomenon, instead of actual examples (I gave up after the 5th page.) Several years ago I could still find them, I remember there being an entire mailing list that was censored in that way.

I did manage to find one example that was saved by the Web Archive: http://web.archive.org/web/20080725103641/http://www.bluegra...

It flabbergasts me to find out that, by 2018 [1], people who are making decisions apparently still hadn't figured out that attempting to censor things (including people's names, of all things) using substring matching doesn't work and is a bad idea.

I mean... I understand that when we were experimenting with things on the internet in 1996 that might have come as a surprise because, you know, you just don't think of everything. But 25 years later?

[1] some of the examples at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem#Other_examp...

Amusingly enough, the spelling of the original word became very easy to remember after seeing that, and the phrase that I made up to keep that was "two asses in a nation".