I worked for a company called Mendix. Most US based sales people would pronounce it more like Mendax. We obviously had quite some running jokes within the company, but most employees only realized after a couple of months. I used to wonder at which stage we would get a new name, but that never happened. And honestly, apart from the inconvenient homonym(?) it's a great name :)
> apart from the inconvenient homonym(?) it's a great name
The first thing that comes to mind when I see it is "mendacious" so maybe not.
I used to know a bunch of people at a company named Incipient. It made it onto many lists of worst company names because nobody knows what it means but they do know what "insipid" means. I did work at a company named Revivio, which was mostly funny because it's hard to spell it out without sounding like Old McDonald.
