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So, I have one final week of vacation left for now and I'm going to �land, an island next to Sweden and catch fish, chicks and sun! I will be gone for all of 192 hours, give or take. Try not to tear the place down!
(That goes for you too, Jeff, in the name of mighty biff)
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Well, �land is certainly not as backwards as I thought, they do have cybercaf�'s!
The � is kind of like o as in "born", but the english pronounciation can't do it properly, I'm afraid. � is almost like the u in burn but of course it can sound differently in different contexts. The ferries have lots of liquor and gerls, both taxfree, and I'm off to a skeetshooting range, also said to have regular pistols. Teehee! In other words, all things biff.
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If I had to approximate, it sounds more like "Bern". Or "Bearn". But the "U" in "burn" sounds nothing like the "U" in "hum".
-------------------- Yes, you're despicable, and... and picable... and... and you're definitely, definitely despicable. How a person can get so despicable in one lifetime is beyond me. It isn't as though I haven't met a lot of people. Goodness knows it isn't that. It isn't just that... it isn't... it's... it's despicable.
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Well, I'm back. I got a tan, about seven litres of taxfree strong stuff (It got kind of freaky when I payed for the goodies, got the receipt and it ended with "Total: 666.00"), some clothes and a disgusting cold. It's going away juuust before I start working again, great huh? Well, I got some great R&R so I can't complain.
Now, the O with the stripe across is the norwegian/danish version of �. The � is not called anything special because it's just another letter here, as is � and �.
� is easy, sounds like the a in "cat". The � can be like both the o in "born" or in "pond", it depends on the word. The � also has two ways of pronounciation, the easy one being like the e in "herd". But the other way simply doesn't exist in any english language or dialect. I don't write in true phonetical so I don't know how to describe it. And I won't make a .wav with me singing the letter � to you, you shameless turnips!!!
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The e in herd is not pronounced; if it were, it would sound like "haird." Are you thinking of a rounded front vowel, as in German?
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