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I shouldn’t care, but there’s nothing I can do about it and was both surprised and quite upset that the cloth shower would be a thing of the past.
How could the Swedish Academy just throw it out without warning?
Not that I use this washing method myself, which means that instead of showering/bathing/wiping down at the sink, you settle for spraying yourself with deodorant and/or nice-smelling water.
Sometimes a week I settle for just wiping myself at the sink, usually because I’m in a hurry or because I don’t want to get my hair wet. “Well, it was a mild rain shower today,” Blixten usually says a little mockingly, but he’s wrong. I actually use water. So that’s it.
But whatever you call this washing Will I continue to use the word in the future – even if it has now disappeared from the Swedish Academy Dictionary (SAOL), which came out in its fifteenth edition a few weeks ago?
The reason for the Raggar shower’s disappearance would be the same as for many of the other 9,000 or so words that have appeared since the last edition eleven years ago: “because they are not used very often in texts”.
Some other words I will miss (but will still use) are headache powder and galosh chin. The latter perfectly describes how a person looks: protruding chin or severe underbite.
Such words cannot be crossed out – or brought into a pattern, as the Swedish Academy calls the measure?
Of course, new words have to be added although I would never use Botox – either on my face or while writing – even if I just did. However, the occasional memory stick is one of the new words in the dictionary.
Another is the Zebra Law, which explains “the law requiring motorists to yield the right of way at pedestrian crossings.” It’s also said that you should write “Zebra” rather than “Zebra”, although the latter is fine to use if you play Wordfeud like me.
However, Wordfeud is not yet included in SAOL – although many of us (at least in my circle of friends) play it. On the other hand, w isn’t on the board in Wordfeud and you don’t have to take everything so literally.
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