Re: CHAT: Blandness (was: Uusisuom's influences)

Frank George Valoczy wrote:

> On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Andreas Johansson wrote:
>
> > Växjö (note the umlauts) is pronounced /vEkS2/.
>
> Bloody Pine I can't write any diacritics, I can't even write my own name
> properly (there should be acutes on the a and the o)...so even if one sez
> /xwuk/ for {sjuk} he sayz /vEks2/...?
When I was living in Uppsala (where people say something like /xwY:k/ for
"sjuk"), I heard some people say /vEkS2/ and others /vEkxw2/.  There seem to
be a few words where the two sounds are in free variation.  For instance,
"kanske" ("maybe") was pronounced /kanSE/ by most of the people I met, but a
significant minority said /kanxwE/, or even alternated between the two.

Matt.