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npub1xugdwrwep4usd2m8rdyj3gas5t6uwhazcgyg056we97arcvkxlss67ttz0 (npub1xug…ttz0) Just... in case you wanted to know:
The VPN/browser-company name is not pronounced "mullvadd", but closer to how you might read "mullvaad".
The compound word component "vad" (in this context) is similar to the (originally Norse) word "ford" in current English, as in walking through water, usually at a specific shallow place which then may be named a "ford" too, like how people walked oxen across the river Thames where therefore Oxford came into existence and was named. A fording place such as Oxford was, is in modern Swedish called a "vadställe" (ford place/location).
Meanwhile "vadd" describes fibrous material that is self-cohesive (i.e. sticks together without glue or similar) and is usually therefore used in as padding, as in to make something soft to protect it or something/one else. If a helmet is "padded" for example it is "vadderad" and a medical cotton pad is "bomullsvadd" (where "bomull" is "cotton", from Germanic "baum" for "tree" and "wolle" for "wool" as it is… like wool growing on trees).
The compound word component "mull" on the other hand means "soil" as in what the earth largely consists of.
Sooo a "mullvad" is a creature that "fords/walks through the earth/soil",
whilst a "mullvadd" would be a creature that somehow pads the soil with fibrous material for us. ;-D
The VPN/browser-company name is not pronounced "mullvadd", but closer to how you might read "mullvaad".
The compound word component "vad" (in this context) is similar to the (originally Norse) word "ford" in current English, as in walking through water, usually at a specific shallow place which then may be named a "ford" too, like how people walked oxen across the river Thames where therefore Oxford came into existence and was named. A fording place such as Oxford was, is in modern Swedish called a "vadställe" (ford place/location).
Meanwhile "vadd" describes fibrous material that is self-cohesive (i.e. sticks together without glue or similar) and is usually therefore used in as padding, as in to make something soft to protect it or something/one else. If a helmet is "padded" for example it is "vadderad" and a medical cotton pad is "bomullsvadd" (where "bomull" is "cotton", from Germanic "baum" for "tree" and "wolle" for "wool" as it is… like wool growing on trees).
The compound word component "mull" on the other hand means "soil" as in what the earth largely consists of.
Sooo a "mullvad" is a creature that "fords/walks through the earth/soil",
whilst a "mullvadd" would be a creature that somehow pads the soil with fibrous material for us. ;-D