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Old 11-28-2004, 04:51 AM   #11
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Originally Posted by jerseydevil
I was wondering if there are any rules for determining if a vowel should be long or short. In english there are mostly some rules - like a vowel followed by "e" - like safe. Or is this just a matter of actually hearing the words and memorizing them?
Well, we don't really have any special rules for that kind of thing. One just has learn how pronounce the words I guess.

As I posted, in this thread, some time ago, a entire list of Swedish words which have the same letters but different pronounciation.
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