Re: RV: Old English

At 23:51 30.3.2000 +0200, taliesin the storyteller wrote:

>And how do Norwegians pronounce it? We agree to disagree on that point
>in fact, though the 'ski'-part is usually pronounced /S/... I've heard
>/Se.en/, /Si.en/, /Se:n/, /Si:n/, /Si.in/... yup sums it up. It's said
>to have many more though.

Cheat!  You were not supposed to enter the contest! ;-)

Actually the only version I ever heard was /Si.en/ (with the second
syllable variably [.en], [.@n] or [.n=]), and I have *lived* in
Norway!  Most Swedes say /ski.en/ -- with accent 1 at that! -- which is
strange, since _ski_ is usually mapped to /S/ in Swedish too.

>I've only
> > ever seen it in the dictionary as [Si:n] or [Se:n].
>
>
>Those versions are *rare*, *grmbl* that dictionary must have been made
>by some darn tootin' city folks or sumthin', maybe even someone from...
>Bergen! *sound of people running in in panic* *dramatic music*
      :-D
Where are *you* from, BTW?  I must confess that I learnt to say /Si.en/ in
Oslo...  We 7/8 of Swedes who live outside the Greater Stockholm area just
love to complain about them, and their speech in particular.  I assume from
your wording that the Norwegian capital is second in unpopularity only to
Bergen.  Good thing we Gothenburgers are so popular everywhere! ;-)




/BP

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