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[Facts] Kjell
by Winter Roisin
3/15/2007, 12:32 AM
Does anybody know how to pronounce the boys name Kjell? I know it's related to the name Kettil, but that's it.It is keh-jell or some other pronunciation?Mum to Alexander Drake : b. 3 January 2006
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- Radoslava_F
3/18/2007, 5:37 PM
It's "Kyell". It's used in Norwegian and Swedish, in which case the J is pronounced like a Y.

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- Satu (_satu_)   +2
3/15/2007, 1:51 PM
neither shell nor chell :-) - Listen!!Hi Winter Roisin,Both the Swedish and the Norwegian pronunciations are somewhere in between shell and chell, and the Danish pronunciation is kyell.Listen to the Swedish pronunciation here:
http://www.nordicnames.de/z_kjell_svenska.mp3Listen to the Norwegian pronunciation here:
http://www.nordicnames.de/z_kjell_norsk.wavListen to the Danish pronunciation here:
http://www.nordicnames.de/z_kjell_dansk.mp3
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- mirfak
3/16/2007, 8:24 AM
ahh thanksI was once acquainted with a Kjell who was born here in the US and pronounced it "chell." I guess his parents probably came from Norway. "Chell" is about as close as I could get to that sound.
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- CN (CSwe)
3/16/2007, 2:08 AM
It still sounds like shell to me...
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- CN (CSwe)
3/15/2007, 9:54 AM
Pronounced like "shell"I'm from Sweden and I here it's pronounced just like the word Shell. (not chell)I don't know how it is pronounced in Norway but I guess it is the same.
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