Svalka has been around from at least year 2000. Might even be one of the reasons for the current practice.
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replyI have a "Särna" chair. "Sarna" in Spanish is "Scabies".
replyFun fact: Although "Sarna" comes from Latin, seems like it's only used in Romance languages present in the Iberian Peninsula (Galician, Catalan, Portuguese, Spanish...) and not for example in Italian, Romanian or French, as it's an Iberian loan word. Most other languages derive from another different Latin word, "scabiēs".
The umlaut does mean that to a Swede it is not the same word sound at all. I can only guess that is why it was allowed?
replyThe sound is still very close in this situation (ä before r) my guess is they didn't have the Spanish sarna on their radar
replyI swear this is untrue. Half the names of ikea products allude to funny words in German.
replyfunny indeed!
replybut no trash talk, no swear words, nothing gross or offending.
Do IKEA have farthinders in their parking lots?
replyNo, they are slut
replyKeanu was excellent in Fart :)
replyMy favorite Ikea product name.
replyI mean, if you were to use that name for an IKEA product, you can do worse than wine glasses :P
replyA bed would be a little too on the nose I think.