On HKU's Tang Chi Ngong School of Chinese building, the English word "university" is spelled rather strangely. It isn't a typo, but there is a creepy origin story to the spelling. Legend states that during the Japanese occupation, King's College was a place of torture and the execution of victims. Many innocent people were hanged under the shade of the very same trees. Recently, when the sign was built, the construction workers found that no matter what they did, the letter "U" wouldn't stay upright. Day after day, the "U" came crashing to the ground. Apparently, this is because the letter of the alphabet looks similar to a hangman's noose, and ghosts filled with hatred for their unjust deaths have been angered into attacking it. Thereafter, the "U" was replaced with a "V" and it didn't fall again.
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