alt Hacker News> Did you know that we name around 2,000-3,000 new products every year?
If that's true, I wonder how many years it will take to use up the remaining unused Swedish words.
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crm9125 • today at 3:15 AM
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> Did you know that we name around 2,000-3,000 new products every year?
If that's true, I wonder how many years it will take to use up the remaining unused Swedish words.
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The Swedish Academy <https://www.svenskaakademien.se/en> has a word list (SAOL <https://svenska.se/om/om-ordbockerna/#saol>) of around 127,600 current Swedish words, and a Swedish dictionary including historic words from 1521 until today (SAOB <https://www.saob.se/>) of around 500,000 words.
The dictionary was started in 1898 and completed in 2023(!)