【話題精選】挪威IKEA為新冠肺炎時期出生的嬰兒提供命名服務！
資料出處：2022-09-09 美聯社
原文：
Have you thought about Malm, Kivik or Trotten?
Swedish retailer Ikea is known for the distinctive names of its flat-pack home products. The company’s Norway branch wants to use the brand’s experience to help parents browsing the baby-naming department.
Ikea Norway has built “a name bank” with more than 800 listings available on its website. The names are drawn from ones Ikea has given to its furniture instead of product numbers since 1948.
“After all these years, (Ikea) has built up a large ‘catalog’ to pick from,” Ikea Norway said in a statement.
Ikea names its products after Swedish towns, lakes and other geographical features, but also uses names that have traditionally gone to people.
The branch noted that while retailers saw “both a shortage of raw materials and challenges with delivery times” during the COVID-19 pandemic, “there is at least no shortage of children” in Norway.
The Scandinavian country registered the births of 56,060 babies last year, or 3,081 more than in 2020.
The increase creates “a challenge in finding unique names,” Ikea Norway said.
珂欣粗暴翻譯：
您可曾考慮過用 Malm、Kivik 或 Trotten來為孩子命名嗎？
瑞典組合式家具商 IKEA 以他們獨特的產品名稱而聞名，這次，挪威 IKEA 希望利用他們的「命名經驗」來幫助父母為嬰兒命名
他們建立了一個叫 “a name bank” 的網站，站內提供了超過 800 個「名字」，這些名子可都是取自 IKEA 自 1948 年以來，為其家具賦予的名稱（還強調了不是產品編號）
比如說瑞典城鎮、湖泊，或其他地理特徵方式，都曾被用來當作產品名稱，而這些名字現在也適用於人的姓名！
而且挪威 IKEA 還說：「雖然在 COVID-19 大流行期間看到原材料短缺和交貨時間方面的挑戰，但挪威至少不缺少兒童！」
看來這次 IKEA 帶來了尋找獨特名稱的挑戰 XD
備註：挪威去年有 56060 名新生兒登記出生，比前年 2020 年多了 3081 名
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