14 Ikea Product Names That Make Absolutely No Sense

14 Ikea Product Names That Make Absolutely No Sense
An IKEA logo stands at the IKEA shop in Berlin, Friday, Nov. 16, 2012. Swedish furniture giant Ikea expressed regret Friday that it benefited from the use of forced prison labor by some of its suppliers in communist East Germany more than two decades ago.(AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
An IKEA logo stands at the IKEA shop in Berlin, Friday, Nov. 16, 2012. Swedish furniture giant Ikea expressed regret Friday that it benefited from the use of forced prison labor by some of its suppliers in communist East Germany more than two decades ago.(AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

The new Ikea catalog is here, and part of the fun of looking through it is reading out the Swedish product names: EKTORP, TROMSÖ, BJÖRKUDDEN, JONSBO GRYBY… There is a system to Ikea product naming that matches word categories to product categories: occupations for bookcases, Swedish islands for garden furniture, etc.

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