Skyddad: Kiss my Turku.

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1. Fint! Aldrig varit där…men är halvfinsk. :)

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2. Tidigare åkte vi alltid via Åbo om somrarna, men nu åker vi nästan uteslutande via Helsingfors så man får sova lite längre på morgonen innan man går iland. Men jag gillar Åbo! Slottet tycker jag är väldigt fint. Och Nådendal såklart, det blir man aldrig för gammal för =) Har för mig vi varit på något badhotell vid Åbo också; men är inte 100 % säker.
   Åker du vanligtvis Vinking eller Silja?

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3. Jag trivs också med att bo i Åbo :) Om jag inte vore så envis med att flytta utomlands efter studierna så skulle nog Åbo vara den stad i Finland jag helst bor i i framtiden också :)

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4. Sök på youtube: “Turku on Suomen perseenreikä”
   Misstänker att delar av Finland driver med rikets andra (?) stad såsom vissa gör om sveriges fram å baksida…
   Kanske har stadens Turistbyrå tagit fasta på det å twistat vidare?

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5. (Reading your blog via Google translate.)

   Name “Turku” comes from Old Russian “torgu” meaning marketplace, as Turku is a very old marketplace. The Finnish word “tori” and Swedish word “torg” come from the same root as the name “Turku”.

   “Kiss my Turku” is an euphemism for “Kiss my ass”, as Turku has the nickname “The ass(hole) of Finland”.

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   1. Makes sense – weird do the swedish name Åbo is not related to marketplace… :) Do you happen to know the reason for that? And yea, I heard about the Kiss my Turku – funny way they turned it around ;)

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      1. I’m not good in Swedish, but doesn’t Åbo mean “river settlement” or “river living” or something like that in modern Swedish? I would guess that both Swedish and Finnish speakers just referred to the place with their respective languages without thinking they are names, just generally “river settlement” in old Swedish and “market place” in Finnish.

         There is a saying stil in Finnish “turuilla ja toreilla”, meaning “in turkus and marketplaces”, as in “don’t tell this around turkus and marketplaces”, meaning don’t tell it around. It still uses the word “Turku” as a generic word for marketplace, not as a name.

         Turku is also called “Suomen Turku”, or “The Turku of Finland”, as Finland originally meant only Finland Proper / Egentliga Finland, and there were other marketplaces, so “The Turku of Finland” means “the marketplace in Finland Proper” as opposed to marketplaces in say, Tavastia or Satakunta.

         Then as Swedish and Finnish speakers had gotten used to referring to the city just as what it was (like 700 – 800 years ago), the terms Åbo and Turku became understood as the name. So after Swedish and Finnish speakers had been referring to the place as Åbo/Turku in their respective languages without thinking it was a name, and then they just stuck.

         Interesting blog by the way! I’m from Turku originally and it’s interesting to read how someone from abroad experiences living in Finland and especially in Turku.

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         1. You are of course right Topias. Very interesting to think about it and the history of how names appeared! It’s correct “Åbo” is like someone who is living by the river.

            Thanks for your comment and glad to hear you like my blog! Where are you settled now if I may ask?

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