Nowadays

As a part of my sociolinguistic class we did a survey about attitudes to different language phenomenons. My group focused on Swedes usage of English loanwords, and asked 57 people to list whatever English words they use themselves. This is the compilation of the results. The words repeated several times were mentioned by so many people. Some words are turned half Swedish, inflected according to Swedish grammar, some aren't even English to start with...


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