{"id":1143,"date":"2007-09-28T11:27:21","date_gmt":"2007-09-28T15:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1143"},"modified":"2007-09-28T11:27:21","modified_gmt":"2007-09-28T15:27:21","slug":"any-swedes-out-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1143","title":{"rendered":"Any Swedes out there?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/sv.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Finlandism\">Wikipedia&#8217;s<\/a> perfectly fascinating article on Finnishisms in Swedish, both <em>Semla,<\/em> (a sort of bun) and <em>dyna<\/em> (a cushion) are Finnishisms in place of more common and &#8220;proper&#8221; Swedish terms. Yet both words were in everyday use in my Swedish family, who lived about as far from Finland (and Finns) as it is possible to get without ending up in the North Sea. It never for a moment occurred out me that they were anything other than standard Swedish words. Can it be that wikipedia is in error? Or are there any Swedish readers who can cast light on this?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Wikipedia&#8217;s perfectly fascinating article on Finnishisms in Swedish, both Semla, (a sort of bun) and dyna (a cushion) are Finnishisms in place of more common and &#8220;proper&#8221; Swedish terms. Yet both words were in everyday use in my &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1143\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1143\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}