[Dixielandjazz] Swedish/Norwegian/Danish spelling

[Ingemar Wågerman]

About Scandinavian spelling and pronounciation: The "å" is originally two "a". In Swedish we do not use "aa" for "å" (my name can not be spelled "Waagerman"), but earlier in Norwegian and Danish: King Haakon, now Håkon, the city Aarhus, now Århus.

Swedish is the only Scandinavian language with "ä" and "ö" (like German); In Norwegian and Danish they use ae and ø. 

Ingemar Wågerman

Göteborg, Sverige

(We changed our band name Göta River to Gota River to avoid confusion abroad.)

http://listen.to/gotariver 

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Skickat: den 19 januari 2009 15:50
Ämne: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Norwegian/Danish spelling


Another option is to use the fact that in (some of ) the Scandinavian languages
the use of a double "a"  (e.g. "aa") is equivalent to the character "å".
Thus  "Håkan" could be written as "Haakan".
Either is pronounced like a "long o" as in the English language. 
A simple, single "a" is prounounced "ah" as in many European languages.

Can you verify that Håkan ?
Is it also true in Swedish?

Craig Johnson

On 1/17/2009 5:17:52 PM, Jerry Gordon (jerrygordon at juno.com) wrote:
> Thad,
> 
> Holding down the ALT key and typing 134 on the numeric keypad should
> produce å
> 
> Jerry Gordon, Troy, NY
> Webmaster for http://APlaceForJazz.org and http://SwingtimeJazz.org
> 
> 
> On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 21:51:55 -0800 "Thad McArthur" <wthadmc at whidbey.com>
> writes:
> > Dear Hakan,
> >
> > My name is Thad to all my friends. I don't know how to make the
> > diacritic mark over the first a in your name.
> 
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