ALL AROUND THE WORLD

Your letter from Mats Wester in Sweden (RC 333) got me thinking. He was saying that he owned a ‘record exchange’ and I wondered why he was calling it that, rather than a second hand record shop. Then I realised that a second hand record shop in Swedish is a ‘skivbörs’, which translates as ‘record exchange’. I think it would be very useful if we could compile a list of the word for second hand record shop in lots of different languages. Then we could look them up and find out where they are before we travel abroad and therefore get more out of our holidays and shopping trips abroad.

Also, what about charity shops in foreign countries? ‘Myrorna’ is the Swedish equivalent of Oxfam. And on a similar note I was surprised to find many CDs in ‘Cash Converters’ in Paris, of all places! Perhaps RC could even do a feature on how best to buy second hand in other countries? Incidentally, if anyone is in Stockholm looking for second hand records, head to a road called St Eriksgatan (it has its own underground station, so is easy to find). There are quite a few ‘skivbörs’ there.

by James Polden
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