Language and culture

Language and culture

Lingo cops beat sweet maker in jelly-baby battle

Lexicographers in Norway are savouring a sweet victory after the country’s language council ruled against a confectioner that wanted the Norwegian word for jelly babies purged from dictionaries.

Language and culture

How close is Norwegian to its neighbours?

Want to check out the geography of the word 'yes'? If you have even a speck of linguistic geekiness within you, this European word translator map could keep you busy a long time.

Language and culture

Norwegians sick of English in adverts: report

Growing numbers of Norwegians think the English language has become all too prevalent in advertising, according to a report from the Language Council of Norway.

Norwegian

Learn Norwegian to keep dementia at bay: study

Ex-pats in Norway who are putting off language lessons have just been handed another reason to dive in and learn Norwegian - speaking a second language keeps dementia symptoms at bay, scientists say.