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  2. MorMor - Wikipedia

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    [2] [3] [4] He was in a foster home initially and then got adopted by a Swedish family. "Mormor" is a reference to his grandmother, the word meaning "grandmother" in Swedish. [5] Nyquist sang in his school's choir and played trumpet in a band. [3] After he finished school, Nyquist started to study sociology at Toronto's Ryerson University. [3]

  3. Emilie Petersen - Wikipedia

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    Emilie Charlotta Petersen, née Eckert (15 July 1780 in Hamburg – 10 January 1859 in Kärda), known as Mormor på Herrestad (The Herrestad Grandmother), was a Swedish landowner and philanthropist. She was a pioneer within the sewing society in Sweden, as well as an internationally known philanthropist.

  4. Old Swedish - Wikipedia

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    Old Swedish (Modern Swedish: fornsvenska) is the name for two distinct stages of the Swedish language that were spoken in the Middle Ages: Early Old Swedish (Klassisk fornsvenska), spoken from about 1225 until about 1375, and Late Old Swedish (Yngre fornsvenska), spoken from about 1375 until about 1526.

  5. List of English words of Swedish origin - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of English words borrowed from the Swedish language.. aquavit, "a clear Scandinavian liquor flavored with caraway seeds" [1]; fartlek, "endurance training in which a runner alternates periods of sprinting with periods of jogging" [2]

  6. My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry - Wikipedia

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    My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry (published in the United Kingdom as My Grandmother Sends her Regards and Apologises) is a novel written by the Swedish columnist, blogger, and writer Fredrik Backman. The book was first published in Swedish (as Min mormor hälsar och säger förlåt) in 2013. The English translation was later ...

  7. Category:Swedish words and phrases - Wikipedia

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    Please keep this category purged of everything that is not actually an article about a word or phrase. See as example Category:English words . Pages in category "Swedish words and phrases"

  8. Word search - Wikipedia

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    A word search, word find, word seek, word sleuth or mystery word puzzle is a word game that consists of the letters of words placed in a grid, which usually has a rectangular or square shape. The objective of this puzzle is to find and mark all the words hidden inside the box.

  9. Culture of Sweden - Wikipedia

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    Swedish culture is an offshoot of the Norse culture which dominated southern Scandinavia in prehistory.Sweden was the last of the Scandinavian countries to be Christianised, with pagan resistance apparently strongest in Svealand, where Uppsala was an old and important ritual site as evidenced by the tales of Uppsala temple.