Re: Scandinavian Languages

Hello,

> At the BEGINNING of _sju_? Foreigners are supposed to have
> trouble with the vowel, not the consonant, of that ...
Well yeah, they are both troublemakers :-) Also, reciting the ordinal
numerals can give one quite an embarrassment, because _sjände, sjutte_
is a place where one can come to halt very easily.

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> Some dialects, eg in Finland, have [S] or [S^w].
> Some have [x\], and
> for some reason textbooks are prone to give that or [S].
True. In my idiot-lect, obviously formed by texbooks, tapes, and
teachers, it's [x\]. I might try [x] when term starts, let's see what
happens :-)

Pavel
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