Re: CHAT: F.L.O.E.S.
| From: | Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, February 25, 2004, 19:55 |
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At 01:42 25.2.2004, Tristan McLeay wrote:
>(I have a job at IKEA. In the Sweden Shop at IKEA. But
>of course most people working there have no idea how
>to read Swedish, so they do horrible things like
>pronouncing 'Sås' as /sa:s/ even though it appears to
>mean 'sauce' and, IIUC, is pronounced almost exactly
>the same as our /so:s/.
Exactly alike, in fact!
> Silly Swedes. Couldn't you've
>done the logical thing and spelt /o:/ as 'au'? I mean,
>isn't there something underlyingly /o:/-y about 'au'?
>:)
No 'tis inherently /Au\/-ish.
/BP 8^)
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