Thanks Herman, for a very clear answer :) Nigel
> On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 18:08 +0900, nigel barker wrote: >> Someone asked me this question, and I didn't know the answer. >> Swedish kids in my school were no help! > > Obviously not, as Swedes would pronounce it differently. ;-) > > The common pronounciation around Oslo, in the most populous > region of Norway, is [tye:ner] > > I don't know how to write _real_ phonetic spelling glyphs > in an e-mail, so I will elaborate: > > The 'y' is a consonant here; "ye" is one long syllable. > The second 'e' is a short "uh" sound, with less emphasis. > > The intonation is the characteristic double-emphasis > that you (as far as I know) only find in Norwegian and > Swedish: The second syllable has almost as much stress > as the first. > > -- > Herman Robak > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
