This is ground covered long ago in The Local's previous guide to Swedish words that just sound wrong in English.. When Sweden's TV4 promotes the Sveriges Mästerkock (MasterChef Sweden) programme, it ...

1. Pojke. One of the most commonly used words in Swedish doesn't actually hail from Sweden at all – or at least not modern Sweden. Pojke, meaning boy, is derived from the Finnish word poika, which ...

Köttrymd! In other words, everything's better in Swedish. ( Oliver Hoffman /Shutterstock) Today brought the news that Google has officially objected to one of the best words that has ever graced ...

Simlish Quiz: Test Your Sims Language Skills. Our Simlish quiz has a list below of words and phrases taken from both The Sims and the Swedish language.

The Language Council – which is dedicated to documenting the emergence of new words in Swedish – didn’t think much of this, or fancy a lengthy legal process. So the word was removed from the ...

Every year the Swedish Language Council releases a list of new words that Swedes are using. One word from the 2012 list has caused a bit of an issue. 'Ogooglebar', translated as 'ungoogleable' was ...