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Encyclopedia > Svenska Akademiens Ordbok

Svenska Akademiens Ordbok (SAOB) is a dictionary published by the Swedish Academy, with the official title Ordbok över svenska språket utgiven av Svenska Akademien. This dictionary is the Swedish counterpart of the Oxford English Dictionary. The first volume was published in 1898 and today (2005) work has progressed to words beginning with the letter "T", and words from A to TILL are available in the online version of the dictionary. The dictionary has approximately 450,000 main entries, and is expected to be complete around 2017. ... The Swedish Academy or Svenska Akademien, founded in 1786 by King Gustav III, is one of the Royal Academies of Sweden. ... The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is a comprehensive dictionary published by the Oxford University Press (OUP). ... 1898 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...


The online searchable version came online in 1997.


See also: Svenska Akademiens Ordlista Svenska Akademiens Ordlista, or SAOL for short, is a dictionary published every few years by the Swedish Academy. ...


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Swedish (svenska) is a language spoken principally in Sweden, Finland (Finland-Swedish, Swedish: finlandssvenska), and land.
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