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I took my second trip in the S60 last weekend, from Bartlesville to Lindsborg
(Little Sweden on the Prairie), Kansas for their Midsommar festival -
which reminds me, are YOU signed up for the Midsommar VCOA meet in Kansas City
NEXT WEEKEND?? Looks like it will be another great event and I look forward
to seeing many of you there!
Anyway they were pretty heavy on Nordic folkdancing this time, with the two
groups from Lindsborg (high schoolers and adults) and a group from Mora,
Dalarna, in Sweden (where my wife's grandma was born and mostly raised)
and also the Texas Norwegian American Society's folkdance group. They were
all great. But being in the presence of so many Nordic folk and hearing them
pronounce words I have seen written out, I conclude that Swedish phonics is
a bit short of "straightforward". For example I heard a "g" pronounced like
a "y" and an "A" pronounced like an "O". (It may have been the A with the
little circle over it.) But it brings up the question: Where can a gringo
find a guide to Swedish phonics for English- or Spanish-speakers? Susie and I
are planning to go to Sweden with VCOA next summer (sommar?) and I would like
to avoid seeming unduly ignorant, so that if I get directions to someplace I
can at least recognize the name of the place I am being directed to.
So if any of you Nordophiles out there can give me some direction, I would
greatly appreciate it!
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George Downs Bartlesville, Heart of the USA!
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