Dirty word

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Series Details 17/04/97, Volume 3, Number 15
Publication Date 17/04/1997
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Date: 17/04/1997

At last, Entre Nous can reveal why Personnel Commissioner Erkki Liikanen is always most concerned that everyone pronounces his surname correctly. It transpires that if you say the word with a short 'i', rather than the long sound demanded by the double 'i', it comes out sounding like 'likainen', a Finnish word which roughly translates as 'dirty'.

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