Word: gullberg
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...Wilde saw it, are two countries divided by the same language. No one would agree with Wilde more than a Swedish lexicographer immersed in a mighty labor of scholarship that has occupied his last 26 years and will not be completed for at least another two. He is Ingvar Gullberg, and his two-part work is a Swedish-English and English-Swedish dictionary of technical words and terms used in business, industry, administration, education and research. We were pleased to hear last week that one of his most important sources is TIME...
...Gullberg, official English translator in the Swedish Foreign Office, has published the first volume, a 1,246-page book containing 130,000 extensive entries, which is unique in that, where necessary, he renders the Swedish in both the Queen's English and the American variety. It has been hailed by scholars, businessmen, diplomats, technicians and others who work in the two languages. Lexicographer Gullberg subscribes to and carefully reads 40 English-language publications, including the London and New York Times, the Financial Times, the Economist, the Guardian, TIME and LIFE. His first and main source of new English words...
...context in which it is used. New words, he says, are coming into usage at an unprecedented rate, particularly in English, the prevalent language of commerce and technology. Virtually all the space-age terms he defines in the Swedish-English volume he filtered out of TIME'S columns. Gullberg says: "Many of TIME'S own neologisms have come to stay in the language." We can't wait to see how a few of our recent coinages-non-book, Vietnik, op art-are minted into Swedish...
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