You English-speaking people, don't be sorry you can't pronounce it right. Other Scandinavians, Swedes, Danes and Norwegians, have a hard time too. Maybe not the Norwegians who speak NyNorsk, but everyone else. The big difficulty for me is the last -ll, pronounced -dl, but not quite.
That is a mouthfull! Sounds like jibberish when the news reporters say it :)
ReplyDeleteThe third guy screws up completely
ReplyDeleteThe fourth guy sounds like he's yodelling, Mr Dalek.
ReplyDeleteamericans aren't much better, come over and see, sugar! *L* xoxoxo
ReplyDeleteSavannah, at the time, I bet they thought they had gotten away with the pronounciation :-D
ReplyDeleteYou English-speaking people, don't be sorry you can't pronounce it right. Other Scandinavians, Swedes, Danes and Norwegians, have a hard time too. Maybe not the Norwegians who speak NyNorsk, but everyone else. The big difficulty for me is the last -ll, pronounced -dl, but not quite.
ReplyDeleteHavskatten, it sounds like a very complicated language. The people of Iceland must be having such a laugh at us :-D
ReplyDeleteThe wiki sound sounded like some one with brain damage.
ReplyDeleteThe rest did a good job not sounding like a broking bikepump
Stan...you're a weatherman, aren't you? Oh dear lord, I've put my foot in it, again!
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