I suspect, Piers, that Danish and Swedish differ mainly in the pronunciation;
but the Swedes seem to add syllables where none seems necessary.
Drochaid and Eilein? Bridge and Island?
Chris
> On 1 Jul 2015, at 15:47, Piers Hemy <piers@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> There are some words in Swedish whose pronunciation I find very odd - sju,
> sjukehus and other words beginning sj, and spoken Danish was all but
> unintelligible until Borgen came on TV, which is all the more strange, since
> written Danish is a relative doddle (that is a sop to Nathan and Thomas
> Heide-Clausen - where are you Thomas?).
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