IKEA: You buy it, you pronounce it
The ground has been officially broken: IKEA (pronounced "eye-KEY-uh") is coming to Charlotte.
The Swedish mega-store is known for its affordable home furnishings, tasty meatballs, and distinctive Scandinavian names. And while the word-nerd in me gets jiggy at the sight of products named POÄNG and BESTÅ ENÖN, some may think that IKEA simply enjoys seeing us clumsy Americans struggle with three extra letters in the alphabet.
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