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English Use In Sweden
* this is just some of what I added to Swenglish*

English has become the lingua franca in many Swedish workplaces. Swedish speakers often modify English business-specific terms with Swedish endings, such as peaken, (‘the peak’ [of the season]), spotrater (‘spot rates’), and cancellera (‘cancel’).

(to put under header of pronunciation in Swenglish article) Swedish is a pitch accent language. Accent 1 is a low-high-low contour and accent 2 is an high-low-high-low contour, with the second peak in the second syllable. This gives Swenglish speakers a "singing" quality to their speech. Particularly when exaggerating their Swedish accent in English, speakers add an extra cadence to their words that most native English speakers lack.

This characteristic is demonstrated