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Re: Of accents & dialects

From:Lars Mathiesen <thorinn@...>
Date:Tuesday, October 21, 2008, 16:32
2008/10/21 Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>:
> Incidentally standard Swedish, Norwegian and Danish all > have extended the old 3rd singular _-r_ ta all persons > of both numbers, while some traditional dialects retain > more or less of the old person-number endings. OTOH I once > heard a wan speaking dialect-influenced standard Swedish > use _-r_ in the imperative too, which sounded quaint to > me.
Well, before the singular forms were extended to the plural in standard written Danish (about 100 years ago), the plural of the imperative ended in -r. Did any Swedish dialects have something similar? -- Lars