skiing in Skien? (wase: RV: Old English)

At 1:48 pm -0500 30/3/00, Doug Ball wrote:
>>Sally Caves wrote:
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>> BP Jonsson wrote:
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>>> Agree.  How would you Anglos pronounce Skien, BTW?
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>> "skane," i.e. /sken/, and it's spelled "skein"!  <G>
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>> Sally
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>I'm thinking that the town Skien in Norway is meant, not the word "skein."
Yes, that's what Philip was asking about.

My immediate response was /'ski:@n/.  I think the others who responded with
/ski:n/ are likely to be a majority.

Most anglos, I'm sure, would be guided (unconsciously) by 'ski' /'ski:/.  I
remember a few - very few - pedantic old-timers when I was young (forty or
so years back) still pronouncing it as /'Si:/.  But I've not heard that
pronunciation in English since the 1950s.

Ray.

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