Today’s word is a noun that literally translates as “rich bread.” In everyday Swedish use, pain riche has become a synonym for the type of white bread most people would identify as a baguette or bread ...

A Swedish clown – or should that be a 'pajas'?Photo: Björn Larsson Ask/TT Every language borrows from its neighbours: English is a proper mongrel, with layers of German, Danish and Norman French ...