January 03, 2024
IKEA has 460 stores around the world. In each market their products retain their Swedish names, which are regularly checked to make sure they don’t mean something vulgar in other languages. Sometimes, a crude term slips through, like the children’s desk Fartfull, which means “full speed” in Swedish.
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