I need to say that there are hypothesis/assumptions about a certain word (Foobar) - that it means something. But I can't seem to form this sentence properly.

Here is what I got so far:

```
One can encounter assumptions that "Foobar" is "good-for-nothing", "lazy" person. But
that cannot be true ...

```

The construct "one can encounter assumptions" seems wrong to me - both because of the **encounter** word and the **assumptions** word.

I tried **one can meet**, **one can find** - for the first part, and **suppositions**, **propositions** for the second - but none of them seem to make any sense.

I hope this is confusing enough :-)