December 09, 2009

What's In a Name?

I have one-on-one English lessons with one of my students, and just happened to be browsing through the pages of the book I teach out of. My eye caught upon this little gem:

Mm hmm, there's a school in Korea called Yoo-Suck Elementary. Welcome to Yoo-Suck Elementary. We proudly display Yoo-Suck on our walls. Enroll your child at Yoo-Suck and let him or her wear the name Yoo-Suck on their shirt. Come to our soccer games and root on "Yoo-Suck Yoo-Suck Yoo-Suck."

The man at the school is credited with helping to write this English book, so he would obviously know that Yoo-Suck has a meaning other than just a man's name. That's right, they know and they just don't care.

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