What are those names?
I sit on a NOMINELL, store my books on a BILLY, and prepare my dinner on a VÄRDE. How do they come up with these names? This is what I saw on the web:
- Upholstered furniture, coffee tables, rattan furniture, bookshelves, media storage, doorknobs: Swedish placenames
- Beds, wardrobes, hall furniture: Norwegian placenames
- Dining tables and chairs: Finnish placenames
- Bookcase ranges: Occupations
- Bathroom articles: Scandinavian lakes, rivers and bays
- Kitchens: grammatical terms, sometimes also other names
- Chairs, desks: men’s names
- Materials, curtains: women’s names
- Garden furniture: Swedish islands
- Carpets: Danish placenames
- Lighting: terms from music, chemistry, meteorology, measures, weights, seasons, months, days, boats, sailors’ language
- Bedlinen, bedcovers, pillows/cushions: flowers, plants, precious stones
- Children’s items: mammals, birds, adjectives
- Curtain accessories: mathematical and geometrical terms
- Kitchen utensils (cutlery, crockers, textiles, glass, porcelain, tablecloths, candles, serviettes, decorative articles, vases etc.): foreign words, spices, herbs, fish, mushrooms, fruits or berries, functional descriptions
- Boxes, wall decoration, pictures and frames, clocks: colloquial expressions, also Swedish placenames
Don't ask me what kind of occupation "BILLY" is.
Labels: On the light side
I think you should stop putting books on a chair.
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阿中 |
October 28, 2006 6:01 PM