A woman in New South Wales, Australia is being relentlessly pursued by state road authorities because her personalized number plate means "vagina" in another language,
The Roads and Traffic Authority (RTA) says the number plate bearing the name - "Kiki" - is the same word used for vagina in the Filipino language, Tagalog, and wanted them removed.
Kristen Perry, a lawyer from Newcastle, said she was informed of her "offensive" nickname after first receiving her personalized plates five years ago as a gift from her husband. Perry said that Kiki has been her nickname since childhood.
The RTA received a complaint from a Tagalog speaker who found the number plate offensive. The Tagalog people are an ethnic group in the Philippines, making up 28.1 per cent of the Filipino population.
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