The Power of Heart posted:

How about if it's a teacher in the United States that's not a native English speaker? My parents and I are from the French part of Switzerland, we moved to California when I was very small. By the time I was in high school, my mother had become a French teacher at an elementary school. One night at dinner she mentioned what a weird day she had. She was trying to teach the first graders about marine mammals, but when they got to "seal," the other teacher abruptly stopped the class and pulled her aside to tell her not to do that lesson anymore. She had no idea why.

My dad and I just kind of stared at her in disbelief and then he finally said, "You do realize you were making a bunch of first graders shout 'gently caress!' right?" Because "seal" in French is "phoque," which sounds exactly like "gently caress."

She gasped and looked at me and said "THAT'S why whenever I took you to the wharf to look at the seals people would stare at us! To them it looked like I was letting my three year old daughter run around saying "gently caress! gently caress! gently caress!""