Utah teacher fired after homophone blog

Social media strategist lost job in Utah because school 'didn't want to be linked with homosexuality'

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A social media strategist says he was fired by a language school in Utah for writing about homophones on the school's website.

Tim Torkildson, who is also a qualified language teacher, claims the owner of the Nomen Global Language Center said he did not want his school "to be associated with homosexuality" after reading a blog post about homophones – words that sound the same but have different meanings, such as 'pause' and 'paws'.

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