Quoting Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>:
> At 10:55 25.3.2004, Andreas Johansson wrote:
>
> >In Scandinavia, you've essentially got a continuum of dialects, which are
> >classed as Swedish, Norwegian or Danish solely based on which side of the
> >borders they are. This has seen Scanian going from a Danish dialect to a
> >Swedish one.
>
> And as my dad was fond to point out Bohuslän dialect would be
> equally badly suited by Norwegian orthography as by Swedish
> orthography. FWIW the inhabitants on the eastern bank of
> Göta River still call their neighbors on the western bank
> _Baggar_, a derogatory term for 'Norwegian'.
Does anyone still use that for actual Norwegians?
Andreas