India, Sept. 24 -- A Florida woman who found a common Indian name to be offensive has received a reality check from the internet. The woman shared a screenshot of her conversation with an Expedia customer care executive named Akshit on the Meta-owned social media platform Threads. She made derogatory insinuations against the name, possibly because of its phonetic similarity to the English slang word for faeces.

Akshit in Hindi means indestructible or imperishable - a fact that the woman did not take into account while making her post.

Encircling the name Akshit in the screenshot, she wrote: "Are they just messing with us at this point? How can you say that name without being offensive."

Her post was shared one day ago on Threads, where...