Word: skaarup
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...government has overwhelming parliamentary support. Peter Skaarup, a Member of Parliament from the populist People's Party, which has long campaigned for immigration controls, called the new package of laws "a turning point for Danish refugee policy which can turn into something very good." The People's Party won 12% of the vote in last November's election, up from 8% in 1998, but it's not part of the government coalition. Skaarup said that even though the People's Party has reservations about some of the proposed new laws, it felt obliged to support the government...
Nearly 10,000 Danes had shelled out 4.50 kroner ($1) apiece for a 78-page, 3,000-word guide to U.S.A.-Slang. The lexicographers: Danish Newsmen Victor Skaarup and Kris Winther. To keep up to the minute and sometimes an hour or so ahead, Skaarup and Winther had listened to U.S. newscasts and radio comedians, swapped letters with Variety's Editor Abel Green and studied his slangy tradepaper of "show biz." (Said Green, washing his hands of some of their definitions: "They're talking smörgasbord slanguage...
According to Skaarup and Winther, a bobby-soxer is a flapper; ladies' undies are called twilights; a drizzle is a boy who always walks with the same girl; and when you say attaboy, you mean either bravo, get at it again, or a member of an air transport auxiliary corps. After consulting the dictionary, Danes would have no trouble following the English dialogue of such Hollywood hits as Himlen kan vente (Heaven Can Wait), might tackle the best-selling Der gror et Trae i Brooklyn in the original...
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