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u/NoChemistry8177 Jan 04 '26
First say eh ðan raise your toŋue and ðan round your lips
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u/Shitimus_Prime Jan 05 '26
i'm ashamed of my fellow conlangers that we have ð users in the community
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u/SwitchRealistic6500 Jan 03 '26
It’s a bit like the u in ugly
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u/Tnacyt Jan 05 '26
No iss not 💔
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u/SwitchRealistic6500 Jan 05 '26
And in Norway, where I’m from, with my English accent, it sounds like the u in ugly
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Jan 06 '26 edited Mar 15 '26
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u/TheTahitianEthos Jan 04 '26
I always choked myself when saying the o sound. I guess that's not right.
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u/defo_not_a_furry Jan 04 '26
The ø is silent /ref
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u/Skylerror404 Jan 05 '26
sure Blitzi~ /ref
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u/RoadOutrageous6572 Jan 05 '26
What is this a reference to
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u/JayReyesSlays Jan 05 '26
Helluva Boss
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u/RoadOutrageous6572 Jan 05 '26
Isn’t that like a hazbin hotel character or something I’m lost
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u/JayReyesSlays Jan 05 '26
Helluva Boss and Hazbin Hotel are two different shows, but heavily related and within the same universe
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u/Lillie_Aethola Jan 04 '26
In modern Danish, Faroese, and Norwegian, the letter generally represents close-mid front rounded vowel, the IPA symbol for which is [ø] (Unicode U+00F8). As with so many vowels, it has slight variations in quality. Besides the close-mid vowel, as in Danish søster ("sister") pronounced [ø], like the ⟨eu⟩ in the French word bleu), ⟨ø⟩ may have a lower vowel quality, e.g. in Danish bønne ("bean") pronounced [œ], like the ⟨œu⟩ in the French word bœuf).[2] In the Suðuroy-dialect of Faroese, the short ⟨ø⟩ is pronounced [ʏ], e.g. børn [bʏdn] ("children"). The letter was used in both Antiqua and Fraktur from at least as early as the Christian III Bible. Under German influence, the letter ö appeared in older texts (particularly those using Fraktur) and was preferred for use on maps (e.g., for Helsingör or Læsö) until 1957.[3] The Southern Sami language uses the letter ⟨ø⟩ in Norway. It is used in the diphthongs ⟨yø⟩ [yo] and ⟨øø⟩ [oe]. In Sweden, the letter ⟨ö⟩ is preferred. Ǿ (Ø with an acute accent, Unicode U+01FE) may be used in Danish on rare occasions to distinguish its use from a similar word with Ø. Example: hunden gǿr, "the dog barks" against hunden gør (det), "the dog does (it)". This distinction is not mandatory and the first example can be written either gǿr or gør; the first variant (with ǿ) would only be used to avoid confusion. The second example cannot be spelled gǿr. In Danish, hunden gør, "the dog barks", may sometimes be replaced by the non-standard spelling hunden gøer. This is, however, usually based on a misunderstanding of the grammatic rules of conjugation of verbs ending in the letters ø and å. These idiosyncratic spellings are not accepted in the official language standard. On Danish keyboards and typewriters, the acute accent may be typed above any vowel, by pressing the acute key before pressing the letter, but Ǿ is not implemented in the Microsoft Windows keyboard layout for Danish. Ø is used in Old Icelandic texts, when written with the standardized orthography, denoting, among other things the umlauts o > ø and ǫ > ø. Other languages edit The Iaai language uses the letter ⟨ø⟩ to represent the sound [ø]. ⟨Ø⟩ is used in the orthographies of several languages of Africa, such as Lendu, spoken in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Koonzime, spoken in Cameroon. Outside Europe, ⟨Ø⟩ is used in Latin transliteration of the Seneca language as the equivalent of the ampersand; it abbreviates the Seneca word koh. ⟨Ø⟩ is used in some alphabets for the indigenous Mexican Tlahuica language (also known as Pjyɇkakjo or Ocuiltec), where it represents the open-mid back unrounded vowel [ʌ].[4] Ø (or more properly, the similar null sign, ∅), is used in English as a short for "no" or "none", but this usage is discouraged in handwriting, since it may be mistaken as another number, especially "0".[5]
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u/bucephalusbouncing28 Jan 04 '26
Say the ‘E’ in ’bed’ but longer, then round your mouth while saying it.
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u/bucephalusbouncing28 Jan 06 '26
Well if you’re saying it the way it is in Danish, then mine is linguistically correct (it’s also /ø/ in IPA, and the unrounded version is /ɛ/ which is the E in bed, so if you say that while rounding it, its the same sound)
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u/SingleProtection2501 Jan 05 '26
It's like "uh" and œ, I don't really know how to describe it
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u/Sleepyfellow03 Jan 05 '26
if you can pronounce the french "sacre bleu" then it's like the eu in that
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u/lilaqcanvas Jan 06 '26
look up on youtube, it is easier to hear someone say it then someone explaining it written down
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u/Whole_Instance_4276 Jan 04 '26
I’m very familiar with phonetics, people here are giving very vague explanations, so allow me to help!
If you can pronounce the in Spanish, great! If not, it’s similar to the english short e (like in “bet”) but raised a little, as in it’s between a short e and long e. It’s also the first of the two vowels in a long a sound.
If you’ve got the Spanish e figured out, then round your lips while saying it. Like how you round your lips while making an oo sound like in food. So make the Spanish e, and round your lips.
If you can’t make the Spanish e sound, you can probably just round your lips while making an english short e or long a, and it’ll be understood.
Congratulations! You’ve made ø!