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sureMan6 21 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: How does IKEA come up with names for its products?

The sound is still very close in this situation (ä before r) my guess is they didn't have the Spanish sarna on their radar

aakast 21 days ago | [–]

To me, a dane, that would be like saying "sarna" and "særna" is the same. They're not.

hnarn 21 days ago | [–]

> The sound is still very close

What do you base this on? Do you speak Swedish? Did you look up the phonetics?

They are no more similar than A and E in English.

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