Re: Probability of Article Replacement?

From: "Andreas Johansson" <and_yo@...>
Subject: Re: Probability of Article Replacement?


> Tristan wrote:
> >I believe Swedish uses -en as a definite 'article', so 'boken' means
> >'the book'. People from the land of IKEA may help you better (my sister
> >has a job at a soon-to-open IKEA. Observations: IKEA is incredibly
> >Swedish. Americans pronounce IKEA ick-aya (we say eye-kear, rhymes
So the whole IKEA post was a bit odd, for virtue of having such an abundance
of IKEAs in it, but one thing particularly caught my attention.

Unless I'm greatly mistaken, IKEA is never pronounced /'ajki:r/ in the US,
nor it is /Ikaja/.  I've only heard /aj'kia/.

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