Quoting Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>:
> Andreas Johansson wrote:
>
> > That naturally made me think
> > of the marginal presence of short [e] in Swedish,
>
> Not in all lects.
That might be considered implicitly added to just about everything that gets
said on this list! ;)
> My Bohuslänska register, and to a lesser extent my Gothenburgish
> register have definite = indefinite for all non-neuter nouns ending
> in -a.
Grandfather's lect too, if we don't count the indef article like I did above.
Another nifty merger is def sg and indef pl of most non-neuters ending in a
consonant; _bila_ "the car" or "cars" (standard _bilen_ vs _bilar_).
Andreas