Re: [tied] Re: The disappearance of *-s -- The saga continues

Torsten:

>> More specifically, my grandmother was a child of 10 or so (because
>> Swedish farmers liked to breed like bunnies). They settled in
>> Minnesota before my grandmother moved to Canada (I think that was
>> when moving to another country was simpler and less bureaucratic).
>
> That Stockholm farmer thing confuses me. You'd have a hard time
> finding farmland in Stockholm at the time, a city of appr. 100,000.

Well, maybe they were really Gypsies, I don't know :) All I know
is that the records which I've seen show that they originate from
Stockholm and started farming in Minnesota. This doesn't mean that
this is what they did in Stockholm. I frankly haven't traced back
my family beyond the boat trip from Sweden. My gramma's maiden name
was Granberg.

> My Brøndum-Nielsen doesn't cover the pronounciation of Swedish /v/
> in the dialects. Swedish spelled <vitt> as <hwitt> (assuming you
> mean the neuter of <vit> "white") until approx. 1910, but that
> wasn't reflected in the pronounciation, to the best of my knowledge.

Hmm, strange. Maybe they were Ukrainians posing as Swedes...


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