Which word begins with "y" and looks like an axe in this picture? (2017)

Friends, please, click on the link. There's a long and interesting investigation that answers the question, which is presumably why this was posted.

Looking at it, I suspect it is actually just a mediocre illustration of yellow paint being squeezed out of a tube as one of the contents suggests.

The most upvoted answer gives the explanation the ball manufacturer is Swedish ('axe' in Swedish starts with a 'y'), but other answers say it was probably manufactured in a country where English wasn't the first language (e.g. China) and the 'y' for axe was simply a typo.

The evidence against the Swedish explanation is that the ball says c for 'cat' and d for 'dog', but in swedish the translations are 'katt' and 'hund' respectively.

This may be a case where the most upvoted answer is likely wrong, but because it was so entertaining and took so much effort, it was upvoted much more than the boring (but probably correct) answer.

EDIT: I had only skimmed the most upvoted answer, it does indeed trace the ball's manufacture to China and suggest the 'y for axe' is a typo. Apologies for the confusion.

> I think the manufacturer of your son's ball mixed in a Swedish word

I found this super unconvincing at first. But they just kept goin. And going. And going. And the more I scrolled and the more I read, I started to think that they are right. And by the end I was fully convinced!

Well worth reading.

Thanks for sharing, OP!