YouTuber Mac Does It picked up on it and tweeted on Monday (October 11): “So IKEA is pronounced like (EE-kay-uh) not (Eye-key-huh) and no one was going to tell me?”The tweet quickly went viral with more than 10,000 likes and 380 retweets.His followers were equally stunned, admitting they had “never heard” of it being called like that before.“I choose to not believe this nonsense,” one wrote.Another commented: “I’m still going to pronounce it as eye-key-uh b****, I don't give a flying f***.
If someone wants to fight fight, we can fight all day long.”And a third added: “As a Finn I have to say I thought everyone knew that.”The revelation even made it to national TV, with Australian daytime program Sunrise speaking about it on their breakfast.
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