Finish with a flourish!

(The title was originally different, but I was moved by a comment and decided to change it. Thank you, Yutani-san.)

I went to the airport the other day and remembered that I've been curious about brand names. For example, this one.

CHANEL

I instinctively want to read it as "Channel."
There are others, too.

Louis Vuitton

An elementary school student just starting to learn the alphabet would probably read it as "Louis Vuitton" (phonetically). And then there's this.

HERMES

You'd think this would be "Hermes" (with an H sound). But it turns out it's "Ermes."

If you don't know, you can't read them. And if you can't read them, it's a bit embarrassing. These names are actually French. Because they use the same alphabet as English, it's easy to misunderstand them. Perhaps if I studied French, this confusion would disappear.

The reason I remembered all these things about brand names was because of a comment my son made at the airport. It was a real knockout, and it went like this.

Blueberry

Do you know what it actually is? It's a brand from the UK. Here is the answer.

Burberry

Now that he mentions it, that's certainly true. Blueberry is spelled 'blueberry', so it's natural to read the second half as 'berry'. That was the biggest smash hit of the day.

Well, I've covered overseas brands up to this point. By the way, how would you read this one?

Nose hair

I asked around, but no matter how you look at it, it has to be "hanage" (nose hair). Even my elementary school son can read it correctly.

However, kanji have both on-yomi and kun-yomi readings. If you change the reading, nose hair becomes "bi-mo." The point here is that it is written in katakana as "Bi-mo," not "bimou."

I have published four stories about such Bi-mo so far. They were also introduced in this article.

I will place each one at the end of this article (*).

And there are two side stories. I wrote them before participating in the Rairan (continuous posting project), and the protagonist is White Bi-mo.

There are two more. They are at work. This is the work introduction edition.

By reading nose hair as Bi-mo instead of hanage, my creativity has been able to soar this far.

I had remained silent about Bi-mo since I started working on it about two years ago, but I am happy that I was able to add four new stories (two main stories, two side stories) by encountering #WhatAreYouTalkingAbout and participating in Rairan again.

This daily writing challenge also reaches its finale today, on the 66th day.

It was supposed to be a simple continuous posting project, but before I knew it, it turned into a 66-day life of 'What are you talking about?', and despite using running out of ideas as an idea itself, I managed to make it to the finish line.

For this 66th article, I intended to create a lineup worthy of the finale, looking back on 'Bimo' while placing top-tier international brands side-by-side with nose hair.

Now that the daily challenge is over, I don't know what my life on note will be like starting tomorrow. I still have a few seeds of ideas lying dormant, so I would like to turn those into articles.

In any case, I think I will continue to write something here and there, so while this is a milestone, I'll see you again someday. Thank you for reading. For now, goodbye for here. I wish you all a pleasant day today as well. Actually, it's September starting tomorrow.

(*) Although each is a standalone story, these are the four that act as the main story.