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[Facts] neither shell nor chell :-) - Listen!!
by Satu (_satu_)
3/15/2007, 1:51 PM
in reply to a message by Winter Roisin
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/ Satuhttp://www.nordicnames.de/
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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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