Coksic
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- Mladen Čoko
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Coksic
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- Belgrade, Serbia
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- Mladen Čoko
chickenherby
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pdurand
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- Pierre
Heh.
Just the other day I was thinking about the origins of a word. Finns often call a hairdryer "Fööni" and I thought maybe it's a loan word from the Swedes. But it looks like the Föhn was the original inspiration. There could have been a product named "Fööni" or "Föhn" back in the fifties or whatever also.
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- Matt
Well, I think that "warm, dry wind" simply gave rise to the German word for hairdrier which in turn got imported into Finland. In German, a hairdrier is called "Föhn" - it's the canonical word, not some kind of slang. When it was imported is hard to guess - it may be a bit older than the fifties, though: In the thirties, Finland showed a lot of affinity to Germany for a while (a common enemy makes for a lot of excuses and opportunistic blindness - and hindsight's always sharper anyway).
M.
