On a recent deployment to Poland I was leading a formation of Sea Harriers across Germany to our first refuelling stop. We were using our Squaron callisign of 'Vixen' formation and I could not work out why the German controllers were laughing every time we checked in on their frequency. One controller even said on the radio 'you don't want to know what that means in German!'
None the wiser we landed at Wunsdorf for a refuel and one of our formation, a fluent German speaker suddenly remember that vixen (or wixen as they would say it) meant wan*ing in German. No wonder there was so much mirth as we checked in as Wan*ing 2, 3, and 4 across the German airwaves.