Re: OT More pens (was Re: Phoneme winnowing continues)

>I think I know why; the Swedish term for the this stuff is _blyerts_ (as
>material; an individual 'lead' is a _stift_), which is from German
>_Bleierz_ "lead ore", because graphite was confused with lead ore. The
English
>term presumably has the same origin.
"Sko ja kon få låån ä blyy?" (length marked by doubling vowels) can be heard
all the time here in schools, so evidently, here we use _bly_ instead of
_stift_ (thoough we'ven't given it a separate plural form, ä bly, fleir
bly). I suppose it's a finlandism though. (If they can divide serbocroation
into three languages, couldn't we divide Swedish in two, too?)

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