complete failure of "dad" gene.....

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  • tgotb
    tgotb Posts: 4,714
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    But... but... how do they spell Sweden without the w?
    Sverige

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  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    TGOTB wrote:
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    But... but... how do they spell Sweden without the w?
    Sverige

    Did you never collect stamps as a child?

    I may have been joking just a teeny weeny bit :D
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  • jonginge
    jonginge Posts: 5,945
    TGOTB wrote:
    Pronunciation:
    å - a bit like "oar"
    ä - a bit like "air"
    ö - a bit like "err"

    Snö is therefore pronounced "Snerr"

    As someone else said, they're extra letters as opposed to accents (though, for some reason, the Swedes appear to have abandoned the letter W to compensate).

    The Swedes also have several different words for what we call a toboggan, which causes endless confusion when talking to my bilingual kids...
    Hang on, hang on. Does this mean people from Hull are all Swedes?

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  • merkin
    merkin Posts: 452
    I couldn't make a snowman either. So I went to some chav street in Kent and nicked one. :twisted:
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,166
    To continue the mature theme here, isn't the Swedish word for 'speed' a bit fnarr fnarr? I remember seeing signs on the motorway near Stockholm saying 'Fart Control' :P
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  • Kieran_Burns
    Kieran_Burns Posts: 9,757
    JonGinge wrote:
    TGOTB wrote:
    Pronunciation:
    å - a bit like "oar"
    ä - a bit like "air"
    ö - a bit like "err"

    Snö is therefore pronounced "Snerr"

    As someone else said, they're extra letters as opposed to accents (though, for some reason, the Swedes appear to have abandoned the letter W to compensate).

    The Swedes also have several different words for what we call a toboggan, which causes endless confusion when talking to my bilingual kids...
    Hang on, hang on. Does this mean people from Hull are all Swedes?

    *hides screen from boss*

    Funnily enough that was my exact thought. Sweden is in East Yorkshire!
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  • SimonAH
    SimonAH Posts: 3,730
    nicklouse wrote:
    in Swedish the two dots on the ö and the ä are called Pricks. :wink:

    Hey, I have an a with an umlaut in my surname (Estonian ancestry) From now on you may refer to me as the dog with three :D
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  • Kieran_Burns
    Kieran_Burns Posts: 9,757
    SimonAH wrote:
    nicklouse wrote:
    in Swedish the two dots on the ö and the ä are called Pricks. :wink:

    Hey, I have an a with an umlaut in my surname (Estonian ancestry) From now on you may refer to me as the dog with three :D

    and I'm particuarly proud of my fada 8)
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