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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Freddie Bennett

People are only just discovering what IKEA means - and how to pronounce it

IKEA is a store that many of us will know and love - but we might not know what the four simple letters mean, or how to pronounce them.

Visiting a huge IKEA store can be a great way to spend an afternoon as you drift along picking up new homeware, dreaming about the famous meatballs at the end of the trip.

But the story of how IKEA came to get its name isn't very well known - to find out we have to go back to the founder.

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