>John Cowan wrote:
>
> > Linus being, of course, a Finland-Swede says ['lInUks]. Here he is
> > saying "Hello, this is Linux Torvalds and I pronounce Linux 'Linux'"
> > in English (
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/linus/swedish.au) and Swedish
> > (
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/linus/swedish.au). The second time he
>says
> > "Linux" in the Swedish version it sounds more like ['LInYks] to me.
>
>I can't listen to au-files here at work, but that last sound
>that sounds like [Y] to you might actually be the infamous Swedish |u| as
>spoken with the Finland-Swedish dialect. That would make it something like
>[}] or [U\] or [8]. I say "Linux"
>(with my Stockholm dialect) as ["li:n8ks]. I guess that would
>place me in the "OK, we won't kill you because of your
>pronunciation, but you'd better improve"-group... :)