Microsoft Office 2007 came with a new feature, instead of going to the new ribbon at the top you could now highlight a chunk of text and a floating mini-toolbar

Microsoft Office 2007 came with a new feature, instead of going to the new ribbon at the top you could now highlight a chunk of text and a floating mini-toolbar would appear in which you could access the most-used commands: bold, underline, etc. I remember the program manager demonstrating this to the closed group and announcing proudly that Office now had a `floater`. At which point all of the Brits and South Africans either sniggered or plain exploded with laughter. It took a while for things to settle before it emerged that the Americans in the room didn't see what was so funny, and the Brits and South Africans interpretation of a `floater` was a turd floating in a swimming pool. The name was changed by the next time we saw the feature, if I recall correctly they went for the far less ambiguous "mini toolbar".