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Polish
Etymology
Sense #3 is derived from a situational gag in the cult comedy Miś, where a post office clerk refuses to send a telegram, saying that "There is no such city as London. There is Lądek, Lądek-Zdrój...", maliciously pretending not to realize that the customer wants to send the telegram to England.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Lądek m inan
- Lądek, Słupca County, a village in the Greater Poland Voivodeship
- the commune (gmina) surrounding the above village
- (slang, humorous) London
Declension
Further reading
- Lądek in Polish dictionaries at PWN