"The word for “spring” in Swedish is vår and the word for “our” is also vår. So “our spring” is “vår vår.” I got more of a kick out of this than my Swedish teacher appeared to, and I wondered if it there’d ever be a time when I’d actually use it. Turns out there was."
Eller här:
"For a country famously and wonderfully punctual, there is one thing you most certainly cannot set your clock by: spring. In fact, this week we missed it by just one day.
That will sound odd to American readers used to spring beginning each year at the exact moment when the sun is directly over the equator, known as the vernal equinox. This year it starts on March 20th at 23:21 GMT no matter what the weather has to say about it.
But not so here. In Sweden spring begins after seven straight days when the average temperature has been above freezing. Once the thermometer says it feels like spring for a week, then “snap,” spring it is. Of course, those not raised in the Swedish climate may quibble that just not being officially “freezing” may be a low bar for a definition of spring."
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