I'm still not over the fact it's basically 'blow-high.' I mean, I knew all along it wasn't going to be as bland as 'blah-hadge,' but you see BLÅHAJ and it creates certain expectations about what letters do in a word that are totally upended here.
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in reply to @jaidamack's post:
I bought one for my trans coworker bestie and she SHOCKED me with this
Yep, the Å is pronounced with an "oh" sound. The region of Åland in Finland is "oh-land".
I pronounce it like the UFO guy on the Mix Master Mike album
no, there's no easy way to explain this
Jag säger Blåhaj som "blaw-high"
Probably butchered that but w/e
Oh, that explains why the off-brand indie reconstruction at Free Sewing is just called "Hi." https://freesewing.org/docs/designs/hi
swedish is a really fun language to pronounce once you get the vowel sounds sorta down
You just kind of have to abandon language when you enter an Ikea.