From: akoddsson
Message: 7276
Date: 2006-10-09
>people around me. However, I'm pretty sure I would say "bördn" if
> --- "akoddsson" wrote:
>
> > but not yet in Icelandic (headed that way though): born korn
> > (Icelandic börn korn) are pronounced bodn kodn. Icelandic
> > pronunciation of börn is something like bördn (but bödn is
> > occuring).
>
> I've been saying "böddn" since I was a child, and so have most
> > comparing it to Ice. au (=ey)Sorry, I should have clarified better. The sound I meant by ey is
>
> I've never heard an Icelander pronounce au as ey. It is more
> like "öy". And at least some Norwegians would spell my name
> Öystein ...
> Regards,
> Eysteinn
>