Today, while riding the metro, I was studying the map. Some station names really stand out in an odd way.
For instance, the station called max catches the eye. It’s spelled with a lowercase letter. In Arabic, there are no uppercase and lowercase letters, but in English there are, and for some reason, it is written exactly as max. And the translation into Arabic is also literally “max” (ماكس). It turns out it’s named that because it’s a sponsored station by the Max Fashion store chain. In Dubai, it seems you can buy a station for yourself. (In our parts in Virginia, you can sponsor a section of a bike trail, but not to “rob caravans” as you might think, rather to oversee its cleanliness and condition)
The same explanation applies to stations like ADCB, ONPREMISE, equiti, and others.
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