poliisi or polis

[akhooha]

I have been watching a Finnish crime series on Netflix and have noticed that the police cars are marked POLIISI. Once in a while there will appear a police car marked POLISI.
Is this just bad continuity or are there really two ways to spell the word?

 

[jazyk]

You mentioned polisi and posted a picture with the word polis.

As you may know, Finland is a bilingual country. Poliisi is Finnish and polis is Swedish.

 

[akhooha]

Mystery solved . Thank you.

 

[Hakro]

Note also that the Swedish word may mean pol-is, in Finnish napajää, in English polar ice.

 

[akhooha]

thank you

 

[Jordan89]

Deadwind, right? That's what brought me here.

 

[akhooha]

Deadwind, right? That's what brought me here.

Nope --- "Bordertown"