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Prehistoric mammal Chaos

ISKAOS (Swe) = “ice chaos” was recently added to the winter status vocabulary. It is likely derived from the more commonly used: SNÖKAOS = “snow chaos” Other dramatic weather conditions: BLIXTHALKA = “lightening bolt slipperiness” OVÄDER = “un-weather” RUSK= “filthy weather” MAMMUTSTORM = MAMMOTH STORM SVARTHALKA = “black-slipperiness” (freezing rain).

Word Power #1

Earlier this summer, the journalist Lotta Olsson urged readers of the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter to adopt an endangered Swedish word. Her feeling was that the Swedish language had become more and more impoverished, possibly due to the strong influence of English words, and she wanted to take action. Adopting a word meant promising to […]

Study-visit + Prao

The Swedish word “Studiebesök” seems to be missing in the English vocabulary. An attempt to translate: Study-visit noun • an act of going to visit/study somebody’s workplace. This is a quite common activity in Swedish schools, where the students are taken to check out a business, a facility or just about any workplace that seems […]

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