• ilovededyoupiggy@sh.itjust.works
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    How do you pronounce that letter? There’s a Danish band I’ve been getting into lately, MØL, but I don’t know how to say it. I’ve been saying “mole” in my head, but I doubt that’s right. It seems to get romanized as “oe” so would it be pronounced “mo-el”?

    • cosmicrookie@lemmy.worldOP
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      Basically its the sound you make just before puking, just without the gargling. Do a video search to confirm

    • torkildr@lemmy.world
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      The Ø is pronounced as eg. the vowel sound in “learn” or the vowel sound in “bird”.

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        “Learn” and “bird” are pronounced very differently depending on the accent of English. Wiktionary has “learn” RP pronunciation listed as lɜːn and American as lɝn, although personally I don’t believe in ɝ so I would write it as lɹn and bɹd.

        Slight rant about American English IPA, but Wiktionary even has American “bird” listed as bɜɹd, which is frankly ridiculous. Say bɜɹd out loud and it sounds absolutely insane. Be’rd. Nobody says bɜɹd, it’s gotta be bɹd. English spelling treats R as a consonant, but American English functionally treats it like a vowel. If we spelled with R the same way it’s pronounced, it would be brd, lrn, teachr, wrking, etc. Not suggesting a spelling reform, because the current system works so well for uniting different accents of English, but it seriously bugs me when people talk about how American R (ɹ) is a consonant. It’s not!

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          In Norwegian we’ll sometimes write burn as børn in very informal settings or for fun so that’s my go to example :-)

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      The musician MØ was asked how to pronounce her stage name once, and she pointed out its just her initials (Marie Ørsted) so there’s not really a right pronunciation to MØ.

      I still don’t have a clue how Ø is pronounced, like in Ørsted.