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From: Niklas Karlsson <nikke.karlsson@gmail.com>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Bugs, Bööge and Bogeymen (was: 70th anniversary of (official) programming errors)
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2021 17:52:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAK6BEgd1rRUqMh_k69tPZ6Av=e3DHJ7jd_Zn_GKpzqh0M=7K-A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210619154841.Lcgnr%steffen@sdaoden.eu>

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Den lör 19 juni 2021 kl 17:48 skrev Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen@sdaoden.eu>:

> So *i* could *imagine* Norwegians pronounce their "bøg" and Svedes
> pronounce their "Bög" maybe a bit like "Bock", short and tough.
> Bo-ck, not Booo-ck (english: not buuuu-ck, o!=u), or so.
> The German "Bock" is a "Ram", the "Böckchen" its minimization
> (often not advisable!), and ramification of a Ram is often seen as
> desirable (wham! bam! thank you ma'am!, though that false jobsite,
> in this case).
>

No, not really. It's a long "ö" and the g is a g, not a k/ck. (Not as sure
of the Norwegian term,
but if I had to guess I'd say the same there.

Niklas

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-06-19 15:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-15 22:16 [TUHS] 70th anniversary of (official) programming errors Steffen Nurpmeso
2021-06-15 22:54 ` John Cowan
2021-06-15 23:44   ` Dan Cross
2021-06-16  3:48     ` Rob Pike
2021-06-16  4:13       ` Bakul Shah
2021-06-16 21:57         ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2021-06-18 20:19           ` John Cowan
2021-06-18 21:00             ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2021-06-18 22:59               ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2021-06-19 13:34               ` Harald Arnesen
2021-06-19 13:39                 ` Niklas Karlsson
2021-06-19  7:57             ` [TUHS] Bugs, Bööge and Bogeymen (was: 70th anniversary of (official) programming errors) Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2021-06-19 15:48               ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2021-06-19 15:52                 ` Niklas Karlsson [this message]
2021-06-19 16:36                   ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2021-06-19 21:05                 ` Harald Arnesen
2021-06-20  3:30                   ` arnold
2021-06-16  1:06   ` [TUHS] Bug etymology " Greg 'groggy' Lehey

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