I wouldn't do it... Sounds tacky from an En.-speaker's perspective because of the literary meaning and then on top of that, the first thing that comes to my mind when I hear it is the name of a small rural prefecture (province) on Kyushu in southern Japan... It also reminds me of the operating room scenes on the Muppet Show about "the continuing saaaaga of a quack who's gone to the dogs". (
Ralph was playing the dr.)
This message was edited 8/14/2009, 6:45 PM