I live in a place with a silent "gh" at the end of it's name. American visitors to the area always pronounce it with a hard "g" sound. It's always amusing - even more so for me because my name also contains that same silent "gh".
Common mispronunciations of your region
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ʕ •̀ o •́ ʔ
it's always funny to listen to english speaking people trying to prinounce swedish town names. (i'm not being mean it just sounds weird and different and it makes it funny ok om not trying to bully ppl)
it is really hard to write how swedish is pronounced in english because the sounds are different. like, in englidh R is pronounced very differently from the R in swedish. and all the vowels are a bit different, especially O and I. also people who don't know about ?, ?, ? tend to ignore the dits and just say it like A and O. (when actually ? is more like o, ? is more like e, and ? is... kinda like u almost)
Malm? becomes mahlmoeh, stockholm becomes Stahkhalm, V?xj? becomes "vaxjjoh..?" (tbf it is weird bc the xj is a sch sound but ) . etc .
when im bored sometimes i just search for "american pronouncing IKEA furniture names" on youtube bc it soundz rly funny. sorry guys ):
i cant think of any places that i regularly hear swedish ppl mispronounce..? if there are any obvious ones i think im probably one of the ppl who cant pronounce it lmao
tho !! v?xj? is difficult! many people say v?x-sj? or v?x-j?, but really the xj sounds more like sch. so you'd say v?sch?. kinda. idk how to write it ):
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im stupid i thought for a second that your name was Tinagh.. but the g h is silent ... i had just assumed your names was tina so i added gh to it and . your name isnt tinagh, right? ):
it is really hard to write how swedish is pronounced in english because the sounds are different. like, in englidh R is pronounced very differently from the R in swedish. and all the vowels are a bit different, especially O and I. also people who don't know about ?, ?, ? tend to ignore the dits and just say it like A and O. (when actually ? is more like o, ? is more like e, and ? is... kinda like u almost)
Malm? becomes mahlmoeh, stockholm becomes Stahkhalm, V?xj? becomes "vaxjjoh..?" (tbf it is weird bc the xj is a sch sound but ) . etc .
when im bored sometimes i just search for "american pronouncing IKEA furniture names" on youtube bc it soundz rly funny. sorry guys ):
i cant think of any places that i regularly hear swedish ppl mispronounce..? if there are any obvious ones i think im probably one of the ppl who cant pronounce it lmao
tho !! v?xj? is difficult! many people say v?x-sj? or v?x-j?, but really the xj sounds more like sch. so you'd say v?sch?. kinda. idk how to write it ):
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im stupid i thought for a second that your name was Tinagh.. but the g h is silent ... i had just assumed your names was tina so i added gh to it and . your name isnt tinagh, right? ):
people from my region back in pennsylvania call creeks "cricks" and it DRIVES ME UP A GOSH DARN WALL, TWO E'S DO NOT MAKE AN "IH" SOUND
WHY DOES NOBODY THERE GRASP THIS CONCEPT
pennsylvania is such a strange land tbh. this isn't so much mispronunciation as it is just....strange words/definitions. we call stuffing (as in thanksgiving turkey stuffing) filling, a "pot pie" to us is chicken noodle soup instead of like...you know, an ACTUAL pot pie. We also call snowcones/italian ice "water ice", soda is "pop", and then we have the ungodly substance known as scrapple, or as the rest of the world knows it, "s**t".
WHY DOES NOBODY THERE GRASP THIS CONCEPT
pennsylvania is such a strange land tbh. this isn't so much mispronunciation as it is just....strange words/definitions. we call stuffing (as in thanksgiving turkey stuffing) filling, a "pot pie" to us is chicken noodle soup instead of like...you know, an ACTUAL pot pie. We also call snowcones/italian ice "water ice", soda is "pop", and then we have the ungodly substance known as scrapple, or as the rest of the world knows it, "s**t".
Ha, outsiders? The locals don't even know how to pronounce names correctly.
Aurora somehow becomes R-ROAR-RUH despite not having so many r's. I dislike hearing people pronounce the name incorrectly all the time. When generations of people have been teaching others how to say the name wrong, the problem becomes more difficult to fix.
Aurora somehow becomes R-ROAR-RUH despite not having so many r's. I dislike hearing people pronounce the name incorrectly all the time. When generations of people have been teaching others how to say the name wrong, the problem becomes more difficult to fix.