As an aside, I don't think it's the "content" of the word GIMP that's the problem necessarily. Just that because it's a single syllable, people don't instinctiv

As an aside, I don't think it's the "content" of the word GIMP that's the problem necessarily. Just that because it's a single syllable, people don't instinctively recognize the pattern of sounds. Especially for non-native speaker, or people that don't know what you are talking about off the top of their head. As opposed to Gee Mail or Eye Tunes. Don't think either would do so great as "Gail" or just "Tunes". One thing I noticed in a foreign country is that our brains fill in the details a lot when listening and that extra syllable really narrows down the possible words and sounds that you might be hearing.