tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8885694854287201066.post2996422394409026949..comments2023-05-14T08:25:20.167-04:00Comments on Physicality of Words: IKEA expert!Åkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09547046504097554789noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8885694854287201066.post-70173224745579214962008-10-31T05:26:00.000-04:002008-10-31T05:26:00.000-04:00We have been to Ikea in Edmonton, London a couple ...We have been to Ikea in Edmonton, London a couple of times since moving to England. It has turned out be the only place where you can get some things that we consider essential (like rings with a simple clip for hanging curtains, instead of the elaborate contraption favoured by the English). And at least at this Ikea, they have a Swedish Food Market, where you can by some of the Swedish essentials. I don't recall whether they have tunnbröd, but they absolutely do have kaviar. They also carry crisp bread, lingonsylt, Annas pepparkakor (also in some versions I've never seen in Sweden!) etc., plus some Swedish candy, like Ahlgrens bilar, salt liqorice and Polly.<BR/><BR/>And as for the names of stuff: the Ikea staff will not know how to pronounce them and will not understand the correct pronounciation, so take your best English guess. At one point, M and I joked about printing t-shirts saying "I know how to pronounce the IKEA names."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com