From: Mate Kapović
Message: 44788
Date: 2006-05-30
>I would say that k- in kära is actually closer to Polish s´ than to German
>> Thought I might mention that that same Swedish for Tourists
> claims "kära" should be pronounced "chairah" by English speakers, i.e.
> with an affricate that you say is no longer used in Sweden (and which
> was probably not the same as English "ch" in "chair"). Why do these
> publications feel they must oversimplify and thereby misrepresent
> foreign pronunciation (a rhetorical question)?
>>
>
> They're just out of date. In the now largely extinct Scandinavist
> tradition going back to the 1840's, in Denmark the songs of Swedish
> poet Bellmann were sung in an imitated Swedish with /c^/.
> c^ > the 'ich' sound is recent in Swedish.