Why "Fork Queue"?

It's a reference to an old story about Dave Cutler, the lead architect of VMS and (later) Windows NT. He insisted upon referring to an internal VMS data structure by the (technically correct) term "fork queue" and refused to use the "offical" terminology "fork list". I am not a native english speaker; when I first read the story, it took me quite a while to understand what could possibly be offensive about the term "fork queue" ;-)