What does it say in the photo: AHA or ANA?
Aha, it's Ana!
That's because this waffle bar is from Bulgaria, and so the packaging is written in Bulgarian with the Cyrillic alphabet.
Some Cyrillic letters look like Latin ones but have different phonemes. H is one of them (= N)
The others are
B (= V)
P (= R)
C (= S)
У (=U)
X (= H)
Macedonian is unique out of the languages using the Cyrillic alphabet by having a letter S, the sound of the which is not "s" but "dz".
It reminds me of the time when the Russian racing yacht Veter (meaning "wind" ༄) visited Australia. The yacht of course had its name in Russian prominently displayed on its side: BETEP. And so, the Australian media unwittingly referred to the yacht as "betep" 🙄
Then if we go into Cyrillic italics, it gets wilder. Here goes...
m (= t)
n (= p)
u (= i)
g (= d)
You can see in the picture below what happened then with the Bulgarian brand Anemumka ("Apetitka") 🫤
Though, we have to ask how come they got "Olinesa" transliterated correctly and not "Apetitka"?
I asked people on social media whether they've had a funny moment where Cyrillic and Latin scripts were mixed up?
One person mentioned: I've eaten in "pectopahs" – "restaurants" to you and me. (This comes from "PECTOPAH")
Then check out the current logo for Korean car manufacturer KIA:
Asphalt2004, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
It looks like the Cyrillic "КИ" i.e. "KI"
Another friend pointed out that the Russian and Bulgarian word for hat: "шапка" is uncomfortably close to an English word LOL! And if you can't work out what he meant, well, let's say that the English term he had in mind rhymes with "tanker".
Anything else? Let me know by emailing at info@nicknasev.com.
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