Try it in South Africa! Here, 'mis' is the word for, er, manure ... and Phyllis, if pronounced in an Afrikaans accent, sounds identical with the Afrikaans word for garbage or rubbish. A minefield ... however, my husband's very Afrikaans granny named her first daughter Phyllis, which was fashionable at the time: the child died at the age of 3, so nobody knows how she would have grown up, thought of her name etc.