Word: bata
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...villa near Sao Paulo, Brazil, a bitter man sat down and wrote an angry letter to Czechoslovakia's finance minister. Wrote Jan A. Bata (rhymes with got ya), who once controlled Bata Inc. of Zlin, one of the world's largest shoe manufacturers: "What has become of the glorious Czechoslovak enterprise in ten months of national management? . . . What we gathered in 52 . . . years is on the precipice of bankruptcy...
Perfectionist. In Honolulu, a thief who stole a pair of shoes from the Bata Shoe Store returned next day to exchange them for a pair the right size...
...conductress cries stoppu to the driver. As you step into the street she shouts after you orai, which stands for "all right" but is actually a form of farewell. In Tokyo the taxis are takuski and the chauffeurs are doraibu. A knife is knaifu, butter is bata, scrambled eggs are sakurambu eggu, beefsteak is beefu teki, chocolate is chokoretto, a mutton chop is maton choppu, soup is soppu, a salad is sarado, celery is serari, a tumbler is koppu (cup). To the moga (modern girl) it is all a pain in the nekku...