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>Tho, it's not that common in modern day native Swedish words, no.

I thought so: "vattenfall" is waterfall / Wasserfall / waterval. So in Swedish a v is used where other Germanic languages use a w?

Next question: is there a "v" pronounced as a soft f in Swedish?

W, as well as thestter Y, also don't have their own sound associated with them. Whenever you say a word starting with either W or Y, the first sound that come out is either "ooo" or "eee". Consider the word yes. "Are you coming to the party?" "(eee)yes I am.

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Deer don’t live 17 years. 7 or 8, max.

Yeah but the exceptions are actually with an y. Ijs and eis are not spelled with an y, so when spelling those out one wouldn't say ygrek or Griekse ij.

I was only talking about the letter y, not ei or ij.

Same in slovak

Bruh

Say hello to our symbiotic friend Mr Knife, and Mr Knifeonastick.

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In French “Y” is pronounced “ygrek” (ee-greck) and “W” is “double-vé” (literally: “double V”)

french is "zed"

English W is so weird. In my language it just like a V but said in a deeper tone

English is zed. Simplified English is zee.

Not quite. There are a few recorded instances, including moses, John the beloved, and Elijah among others.

Not 4 years everywhere. Not everyone has the choice everywhere and also, not every elected official is trying to fuck up their country.

As an Aussie, the current government, whilst still crap, is a lot lot better than the previous one for example and they honestly seem to want to make positive changes for the majority of people. Unlike the previous lot who wanted to empower more rich people, downgrade public health systems, help churches and didn't believe in climate issues.

Citation please? I’m unaware of any reputable scientific study that says civilization has a 0% chance of survival due to climate change.

If evolution felt the need to do it, which is not how evolution works but yoh get it, then we'd probably enjoy the taste enough most of the time to make it ok.

Really?

Spell "ijs" ... "lange ij - s"

Spell "eis" ... "korte ei - s"

Spell "x + y = 5" ... "x plus ij is vijf"

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Excpetions:

Spell "dyslexie, hymne, gymnasium, idylle, mysterie, pygmeeën, symfonie,symposium, symptoom, ypsilon." ... then I would say "griekse ij" and maybe maybe "ygrek" ... as there are no dots on the y (unlike ij)

Why are most Olympic athletes in their late teens then? (For the very physically demanding events)

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Well, they can reciprocate with a "it has 3 syllables if you're a crooked teeth Englishman" 🙄 In the civilised world it has 1 syllable.

Yeah exactly.

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