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Johan Ekeblad

June 27, 2020November 30, 2020 Bev

Johan Ekeblad. Courtesyof Wikimedia Commons. Johan Ekeblad (1629--1697) was a prolific Swedish letter-writer who spent a lot of time on the Continent. According to the Swedish Academy, publisher of a great dictionary that's rather like the Swedish version of the OED, he was the first to use the word skridsko in Swedish. This word is… Continue reading Johan Ekeblad →

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