talking of Myanmar, what do you think of?

[Zebra]

Burma or Birma

 

[Polishprince]

Burma-Shave

 

[Zebra]

Burma-Shave

what is that?

 

[gtopa1]

what is that?

Before that, Burma-Shave was a brand of shaving cream for men, manufactured by the Burma-Vita company, and sold in jars and tubs. It was a chemical step between the earliest shaving soaps, which had to be lathered and applied to the face with a brush, and aerosol shaving foam. Burma-Shave’s unique quality was the way that it was advertised, with a kind of roadside poetry. A Burma-Shave advertisement consisted of six roadside signs, each bearing a few words of text, which cumulatively built into a rhyming jingle. The sixth sign, or line, was almost always “Burma-Shave”. Many of the lyrics played it relatively straight:

Never heard of it in Oz.

Greg

 

[Zebra]

Burma in German
Birma in English?