Re: Pronunciation of "r" - again?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, glen gordon <glengordon01@...> wrote:

>
> To add to the ante, I am certain that my grandmother
> pronounced "w-" as /w/ when she spoke Swedish, not
> /v/. I don't know whether this is because that was
> the thing to do if you were a Minnesota Swede or
> whether she picked up this habit from her own parents
> who migrated to the US from Stockholm around 1900.
>

They must have been registered in Stockholm when leaving, but have had
their roots in other parts of Sweden (Dalekarlia or the west coast) to
have had W when leaving.
It would be interesting though, if a special dialect in Minnesota had
developed this pronunciation.

Lars