CIMG2967 Adecco Bemanning, a sign in Stockholm

Adecco Bemanning, a sign in Stockholm

CIMG2967 Adecco Bemanning, a sign in Stockholm

CIMG2967 Bemanning, as one might rightfully suspect, means “staffing” in Swedish. And how charmingly quirky it sounds in English, with its archaic prefix be, like something straight out of high fantasy, similar to the words bestow or bedeck. “We will beman your castle walls with our sharpest-eyed Elven archers!”

Stockholm, Sweden, May 2006