(Stolen from a very old UN*X fortune file entry I remember only dimly)
Niklaus Wirth, inventor of the
Pascal and
Modula programming languages, complained about
name mangling. Whereas is
Europe people were pronouncing his
name properly ("nick-louse vert"), in the
USA people were
calling him "
nickle's worth". That is, in Europe he was being
called by name, but in the USA he was being
called by value.