Does PNAS realize that their acronym is ridiculous and hilarious? Was that done on purpose?
I think you've been over-sensitized by spending too much time in certain regions of the Internet. When the only tool in your possession is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. When most of your informational input is of a certain nature, everything else tends to relate to it.
And this has nothing to do with you me or the parent thinking it sounds like "penis". EVERYBODY WE TALK TO will think we're saying "penis". Believe me, I get this enough with Coq (the theorem prover) and "cock"'s merely slang.
Uranus, the Magician http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Planets#Structure
Beside being unnecessarily snide, you missed my point, like, entirely.
I don't give a rat's ass that it sounds like penis. But I couldn't say it in public without eliciting childish sniggers from whomever I'm trying to talk to.