Pronunciation/Brand names
How do you pronounce IKEA?
ih-KEY-ah/ɪˈkeːa/
Commonly said as: "eye-KEY-uh"
ee kay ah
IKEA
What it is
IKEA is the Swedish furniture retailer; the name is built from the founder's initials and his hometown.
Why it gets said wrong
Swedish gives ih-KEY-ah, starting with a short i rather than "eye". The English "eye-KEY-uh" is accepted outside the Nordics, but the original is the former.
Hear it in a sentence
The shelves came from IKEA.
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