'Ogooglebar' ... and 14 Other Swedish Words We Should Incorporate Into English Immediately

Swedish has proven particularly adept at inventing new words for new tech.

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 indignities of translation -- to "ungoogleable."

That the wondrous word is Swedish is unsurprising. Many of the world's most delightful expressions, it seems -- among them smörgĺsbord, sliddersladder ("gossip"), and kackerlacka ("cockroach") -- are, indeed, Swedish in origin. The North Germanic language has not only given us the pragmatic pronoun "hen"; it has also offered up highly useful expressions for people and circumstances like "ugly parkers," "attitude incontinence," and "tree murder." Some of these offerings even have umlauts.

'Ogooglebar' ... and 14 Other Swedish Words We Should Incorporate Into English Immediately - Megan Garber - The Atlantic