There's a clever and delightful little Swenglish play on words: "It's not the fart that kills, it's the smell." Why is it clever? Well, the word 'fart' is Swedish for 'speed' and the word 'smäll' ...

This word of the day translates easily to English as ‘wagon’, but its wide use in compound words makes it a great Swedish word to have in your vocabulary. There are a number of idiomatic phrases which ...

Today brought the news that Google has officially objected to one of the best words that has ever graced this planet: ogooglebar, which translates -- if such a glorious word must be subjugated to the ...

In Swedish, the word is uppgivenhetssyndrom, or "resignation syndrome." It could be the most disturbing illness child refugees face. In a recent New Yorker profile of Georgi, a Russian refugee living ...

A spat over the term "ungoogleable" has prompted Swedish language officials to ditch the term from its list of new Swedish words. With 20+ years of experience covering consumer tech and policy, Chloe ...

The Swedish Language Council has nuked a word from its list of new terms for 2012 at Google’s request, according to a report from The Local. As of Tuesday, the council has removed the word ogooglebar ...

If you’re training for a 5K, 10K, or even a marathon, your workouts may need some fine-tuning with a technique called fartlek, which is a Swedish word for “speed play.” The premise of the technique is ...