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

> 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.

A very common surname.

> 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.

There are archaic names that spell <vit> as <hvit> like Hvitfeldtska
gymnasiet (where there was a riot a few years ago) but I can't recall
having seen <hwit>. But you do a lot of interchange between v and w (and
wh) old spellings or surnames. I don't know if it was ever something else
that a spelling thing.

Harald