Local dad wants high school to change its ‘Phoenix’ mascot because it sounds too much like ‘penis’

A dad in Utah has created a Change.org petition asking his kids’ school district to change the mascot for the soon-to-open Farmington High School in Utah’s Davis School District. 

Why? Because he thinks the current mascot, “The Phoenix,” sounds too much like “penis.”

As reported by the Salt Lake Tribune, the mascot for Farmington High School will be “The Phoenix,” referred to in singular, as the glorious firebird that it is. But the grammar of the mascot’s name worried local dad Kyle Fraughton once he discovered that the plural of Phoenix is “Phoenices.”  Read more…

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