Shudnawz t1_jac9cgl wrote on February 28, 2023 at 11:58 AM Reply to comment by superkoning in W is the only letter in the alphabet with more than one syllable by chronolucks Yeah, Swedish v is basically German w. About a soft f, not that comes to mind right now. But that said, I'm no linguist or language teacher. Permalink Parent 1
Shudnawz t1_jac5t8d wrote on February 28, 2023 at 11:14 AM Reply to comment by superkoning in W is the only letter in the alphabet with more than one syllable by chronolucks It has existed for a few hundred years at least. It's common in German, to which Swedish is closely related and we've swapped words with each other for a very long time. Tho, it's not that common in modern day native Swedish words, no. Permalink Parent 4
Shudnawz t1_jabvq88 wrote on February 28, 2023 at 8:50 AM Reply to W is the only letter in the alphabet with more than one syllable by chronolucks In Swedish, W is "dubbel-v", double v. But instead of going "dubbel-v, dubbel-v, dubbel-v" we just say "v, v, v". Permalink 8
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Reply to comment by superkoning in W is the only letter in the alphabet with more than one syllable by chronolucks
Yeah, Swedish v is basically German w.
About a soft f, not that comes to mind right now. But that said, I'm no linguist or language teacher.