IKEA has 460 stores around the world. In each market their products retain their Swedish names, which are regularly checked to make sure they don’t mean something vulgar in other languages. Sometimes, a crude term slips through, like the children’s desk Fartfull, which means “full speed” in Swedish.

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What Does the Rosetta Stone Say?

In 1799—about a year into Napoleon Bonaparte’s occupation of Egypt—French engineers doing demolition work in the delta town of El-Rashid (Europeanized as “Rosetta”) made a remarkable find. While tearing down a wall, they unearthed a large black granite stone with parallel inscriptions in two