How do you pronounce Svea "123"?

Is it one, two, three? One twenty-three? I intuitively want to say 1, 2, 3, but what do I know! I bow to a native from its country of origin.

 

I still want to know how to pronounce "Svea".

 

could also be "twelve-three" depending i guess or just add it all up and call it a 5?

ok.. must be getting late here bit punchy

 

Good thing it wasn't named 3, 2, 1... blast off! That would be terrible marketing!

 

Failed primer school didn't you??

lance

 

Funny, it was called Grammar school in my day.

 

I pronounce it: Sah Vay Ahh 1-2-3
I learned that from all my friends who have one.

It's probably more like: S-Vay-Aah 1-23

I like the first one better...

The locals around here pronounce creek: crick


sam

 

Hold the phone... ...
By the way, creek is something a rocking chair does.
8)

 

OK so adding it up would be 6 not 5

its now evident why i never went into engineering...

 

That doesn't stop some people from going into the field:

Fun


sam

 

on the old site one of the fellows from Sweden posted a sound bite of how they were pronounced.
maybe a look at YouTube would bring up something.
no one around here uses Classics so i can say it anyway that strikes me that day and no one's the wiser.

 

Exactly this was up not so long ago. Check this out.

I linked to this site where you can type in a word, and it is spoken to you in Swedish.
It works good, and Svea has the right pronounciation.
Go to: http://www.acapela-group.se/text-to-speech-interactive-demo.html

You write the text in the large window and press the triangelshaped arrow after the sentence "säg det!"

 

It works, but note there are 3 different Swedish voices. Trangia and Svea each have 3 distinct pronunciations in Swedish. If there was a 4th voice, there would probably be a 4th pronunciation.

 

As to the "123", I use the English pronunciation.

 

"5 Is right Out"

NOW I know why I've always called mine "The Holy Hand Grenade"

Cleric: And the Lord spake, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it.


Or if reading is too hard:
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--Joe

 

My son's girlfriend is Swedish and tells me the word Svea is an old fashioned way of referring to the country Sweden and is pronounced svee - uh.
Stan

 

Exactly. Just as in real life people does pronounce these things different.
It's hard to get rid of the artificial feeling, but Emma is the closest to Svea.
Svea isn't really pronounced so different by different people here, but Trangia is a hell of a word to tell you how it's pronounced since there are atleast three totally different ways to do it! I think it's a local thing. The voice of Eric is closest to how I do it, but some Swedes like to exclude the "g" entirely from the spoken word to say "tran-ya". That sounds like rubbish to me, but is pretty common up around the capital.

 

You must ask her again!
There is absoluyely no "uh" in Svea.
The letter "A" is pronounced like a short "A", and nothing else.
Like in your "Aha!"

 

Christer said;

Long ago a little alien gave Captain Kirk a libation and asked him how he liked the "trawn-ya"... I wish I'd seen the script.

Wait! OF COURSE it's on the web, even the audio! Scroll down to the end... The alien's name is Balok... They spelled it "Tranya".... darn it.

http://tos.trekcore.com/episodes/season1/1x10/audio.html

EDIT- clicking on the audio link keeps crashing my firefox browser, so if anyone else experiences this, I suggest not doing it. Sorry.

 

one twenty three is how I say it, and nobody in my neck of the woods knowns any different....