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I wonder why no one emailed the Chinese company and ask them where the letter comes from. That would be the simplest and better solution.
They did?: > reached out to Hedstrom via their online contact form, Twitter, and Facebook. They replied… Though it turns out to be a knock-off, finding the actual manufacturer might be difficult.
I came up with 'Yaks', plural of a type of beast of burden/farm animal. Probably not the solution, but I didn't see the solution on the post, just a Swedish word suggested. What was the solution decided on? Ok, I conflated 'looks like' with 'sounds like'. Still curious about the solution though.
Very interesting, but I don't really understand why it can't just be Yaxe?
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 'hun…
> 'hunn' hund, not hunn
Took me about a minute to identify it is a yo-yo (without reading any of the discussions), and they point out there that the official ball has a yo-yo for Y, so I am quite convinced that it is supposed to be a yo-yo as well. Just not drawn particularly nicely: the yellow bit is a cartoon string, the blue-and-white bit is the yo-yo's "body". Edit: although now that I finished reading the rest of the investigation, the…
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Swedish yxa is English axe?
It's yellow paint being squeezed out of a tube. The handle is the paint. The axe-head is the tube. The number of people in the comments still speculating and believing in the aye theory is funny. It's literally in the following answer on the StackExchange thread. Or maybe I'm the one who feels the "swoosh" of the joke going over my head, and everyone pretends to see an axe for lulz.
The handle isn't the paint. The axe-head isn't the tube.
The number of people in the comments still speculating and believing in the "yellow paint" theory would be funny, if it weren't so sad.
It's literally in the following obviously incorrect and therefore not accepted answer on the StackExchange thread.
Or maybe you're just temporarily delirious and can't see that the picture is utterly obviously of an an axe. Or you're just pretending to, for "lulz".
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I like the work he put into the answer but he totally flubs it at the end. Black bears are actually dark brown and brown bears are also brown, so there’s no need to try and guess a specific bear species; the bear is necessarily brown.
Except polar bears are actually black, AIUI. On their skin, underneath the fur. Or if you go by the fur, they're (off-)white.