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Afterwork, flipper and pocket – not quite English, perfectly Swedish
Swedish is full of words that sound English. Sometimes they really are fairly ordinary English words that have simply been given Swedish spelling or Swedish grammar, such as chatta, sajt and fejka.
But sometimes it gets even more entertaining.
Sometimes Swedish uses words that look English, sound English and perhaps even feel English, but do not quite work that way in English. They have English-looking parts, but a Swedish meaning. They stroll around sounding internatio
Johanna N
Oct 13, 20256 min read
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