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This I took a picture of awhile back and dug it out while cleaning....its a laundry on the same Industrial estate.
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Swedish entry word tvätteri [tvet:er'i:] tvätteri(e)t tvätterier noun företag som tar emot smutsiga kläder m m och tvättar dem mot betalning, tvättinrättning
English translation laundry ------------------ Mario G. Lafreniere aka Fergie.
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okay I'm laughing... at the title as well as the pic...and also that Swedes get their laundery done in a tvattery - does that mean that their linen is done by tvats? So what would a tvit do for a living then?
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The laundry has sadly closed down!!...It has been converted into a terminal for local post/packet deliveries.
His sign looked good some days and then if it was a windy night, you could drive to work and the letters would be like they are in the picture, they were just "loosely" mounted.
I am not sure what a Tvit does for a living...but there are some stange names here, like "Plopp" for a chocolate bar brand, and "Crapp" for a brand of toilet paper "Neger balls" for balls of chocolate covered with coconut etc.
Plus of course all the mispronunciations a foreigner like myself makes when speaking Swedish! I am going "home" to the UK in 4 weeks for a 3 week holiday....be great to speak the mother tongue all the time!
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Hope you enjoy your trip home Henry - I always got a headache and a hoarse throat when I came home. The headache was because I felt bombarded with being able to understand every word that was spoken around me - even on busses I seemed to loose my ability to filter out what I wasn't usually exposed to - and I think its probably obvious why I lost my voice!
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okay I'm laughing... at the title as well as the pic...and also that Swedes get their laundery done in a tvattery - does that mean that their linen is done by tvats? So what would a tvit do for a living then?
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