IKEA

[qwertysaur]

Is it a furniture store or an adult lego store?

[Formalhaut]

I have never been inside an IKEA.

[qwertysaur]

They have meatballs!

[Formalhaut]

They have meatballs!

Because the draw of meatballs is enough right?

[qwertysaur]

They have meatballs!

Because the draw of meatballs is enough right?

yessssssssssssssssss~

[Formalhaut]

They have meatballs!

Because the draw of meatballs is enough right?

yessssssssssssssssss~

So wait, it's both a furniture store, AND a restaurant? That's like your local swimming pool also housing a library.

[qwertysaur]

They have meatballs!

Because the draw of meatballs is enough right?

yessssssssssssssssss~

So wait, it's both a furniture store, AND a restaurant? That's like your local swimming pool also housing a library.

It's just meatballs. So it's like the swimming pool has the entire Nancy Drew book series.

[Jiro]

I saw an IKEA once. They need to expand into Australia more, I want to visit. Maybe I should go there for my next date.

[Loony BoB]

I just wish my flat was big enough to hold more IKEA.

[DK]

Lately at work the textbooks for the lowest level adults have a lesson about going to buy things, and the setting for this is furnature shops. I was teaching a lesson to two regular students and they were practicing giving each other information about where to shop, when one of them was like "You should try ikki-a, they're having a sale!"

I was sitting there like "what the living trout is an ikki-a? ikki-a...ikki-a?? wait....no xD" so I wrote down IKEA on a piece of paper and asked her like "is this ikki-a?" and she nodded at me all happily, and I promptly died right in her face. When I told them how we pronounce it in English they went properly mental with the "EEEHHHHHHHHHHH?!?!" and thus I have been delighting in doing this to all my other beginner students ever since.

[LocoColt04]

BoB gets it.

I know people who go to the IKEA in Austin solely for the food up at the front. As in... grocery shopping at IKEA. Insanity!!

Also, the one up in Allen is even bigger, and it definitely qualifies as adult Legoland.

[Loony BoB]

Lately at work the textbooks for the lowest level adults have a lesson about going to buy things, and the setting for this is furnature shops. I was teaching a lesson to two regular students and they were practicing giving each other information about where to shop, when one of them was like "You should try ikki-a, they're having a sale!"

I was sitting there like "what the living trout is an ikki-a? ikki-a...ikki-a?? wait....no xD" so I wrote down IKEA on a piece of paper and asked her like "is this ikki-a?" and she nodded at me all happily, and I promptly died right in her face. When I told them how we pronounce it in English they went properly mental with the "EEEHHHHHHHHHHH?!?!" and thus I have been delighting in doing this to all my other beginner students ever since.

I know people who say I Kea (for those not in NZ, that's Eye-Key-Uh) and people who say Icky Ah. So I honestly don't know what I use, and now I'm starting to think I must say either depending on who I'm talking to. o_o

[Denmark]

it's eye-key-uh because that's how words work

i wish my car was bigger so it'd be easier to buy stuff from ikea and take it home

[Formalhaut]

We are NOT turning this into another pronunciation thread.

[LocoColt04]

We are, however, turning it into a food thread.

Because.

Because I don't like chocolate, but IKEA has some damn good milk chocolate. And jam. mmmmmmmm