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Original name of the Sony Walkman
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Growing up, portable cassette players were always called "freestyles" here. I never knew it was a marketing thing, or that some other countries also objected to the naming.
this is "original research", which means i dicked around on the internet archive for half an hour. it may be wrong.
Haha, yes. Even as I wrote it, I wondered if it was just a case that Ireland was not listed for the UK market. Also inwonder d with Sweden having a different name was Denmark just an afterthought. Their languages are quite similar is often a similar market.
Perhaps multiple names were used for only a short period while the markets were tested.
swedish and danish are close grammatically, at least on paper, but common words can differ a lot.