Puzzle Description:

Æ Ø Å are the last letters in the Norwegian and Danish alphabet.

#1: Susan Duncan (medic25733) on May 24, 2010

Nicely done even if I can't say them.

They are pronounced a little bit different depending on it being a short or long vowel (at least in Norwegian)
You probably use the å sound frequently in words like port, war (short) and flaw (long)
Ø is used in words like learn and burn
Æ is more difficult and I can only find the words bad and sad (at the moment)

looks like greek to me lol

seems like Ø and Æ are similar to the German ö and ä. Interesting stuff.

The Ø is the same (basically), but æ and ä is definitely not the same.

Really? most pronunciation sites say that the long ä is pronounced like 'bad', like in the word wäre. Then again I don't speak either language natively so I guess you would know better than me :)

Sure you're not mixing it with the Swedish pronunciation? They use ö and ä were we use ø and æ, but in the German language (as far as I've learned) it's pronounced more like a long e.

That would be, the way we say the e - more like your é - like in pokémon

interesting, I learned something new. :)

i love to learn anything about languages.

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