2025年6月6日、ポーランドの村が、「糞」を連想させる村名を変えるかどうかを住民投票にかけ、34対32で「変えない」と決めた。6 June 2025 — A Polish village put to a referendum whether to change its name, which suggests the word for excrement, and voted 34 to 32 to keep it.

Kałowice, a village in Trzebnica County near Wrocław in south-western Poland, held a referendum on 6 June 2025 on whether to change its name to Przylesie, meaning roughly 'by the forest.' The result was thirty-four against and thirty-two in favour. The name will stay. Ninety-six people were eligible to vote, and about seventy per cent took part.

Sixty-one people had signed the petition for the change, led by younger residents who had moved in from Wrocław and elsewhere. The village head, Wiesław Sędkowski, said the present name draws laughter and unpleasantness: it brings to mind the word kał, excrement, and the residents' children are teased about it at school. It was the third attempt to change the name.

The name itself is very old, dating to the twelfth century; the register of endowments of the Wrocław bishopric, written between 1295 and 1305, records it in the Old Polish form Kalowicz, and under German rule it was Kalowitz. The referendum was also to have covered introducing street names to tidy up the house numbering, but as the renaming was rejected, that question was not put to a vote.