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 ...

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 ...

Swedish has been sounding more and more English in recent years. In this two-part report, we will look at the phenomenon from different angles. The first part is about language politics--just what ...