Welcome to Loo

Some of us have American surnames because our great grandfathers adopted the names of their teachers or employers. So we have Gabriel Baban Keith because there was a Keith who was the first police chief of Baguio. Then there is Pitapit Clapp and so forth. But it is so Cordilleran to enunciate these names according to our will. So we have former Anthony Wooden whose family name is pronounced “Wo-o-den.” Harley told me about his classmate whose family name is Young but is pronounced “yo-ung.” And then if you're going to Sagada, you must have seen that sign "Welcome to Loo" and you just have that urge to take a leak. Well, Loo is not the London W.C. (water closet) but the Loo Valley, known for cabbage and patatas. Loo is pronounced Loo-oo.