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Short words/Kortord Posted by on Dec 27, 2010

  rea = realisation  It is the Swedish word for the English word sale. If you ask me, I think this is when actually the “real prices” are carried out or let´s say implemented. Who are they fooling??? bil = automobil eng. automobile/car  Self-propelled is the original meaning of this word. A Danish newspaper used the Scandinavian…

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The Days Between Posted by on Dec 28, 2008

Between what? Christmas and New Year’s, naturally! I don’t know about you, but I am positively glad that Christmas is finally over. No more coming up with excuses to avoid eating lutefisk (lutfisk in Swedish, but “lutefisk” in English, OK?). Yay! And no more julskinka (Christmas ham). Yay! (The one we were treated to this…

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