Engelske låneord i opdateringer af Den Danske Ordbog og Retskrivningsordbogen (2014–2017)

Abstract

This paper analyzes the recent updates of two major dictionaries of contemporary Danish, Den Danske Ordbog (a corpus-based dictionary of general Danish) and the official dictionary of Danish spelling – Retskrivningsordbogen. In the analyzed period (2014–2017) each of the dictionaries in question was updated several times, English loanwords being well represented in each of the updates. The author provides basic information on the two dictionaries in question and compares the overall update strategies and methods for both of them as well as the sources of new entries. This is followed by an analysis of the newly added entries, the main focus being the types of English loanwords in the updates. Most attention is paid to the two most common loanword types found in the analyzed data, i.e. direct loanwords and hybrid formations, as well as to what similarities and differences can be found in the updates of the two dictionaries.