The Official Languages Thread

[Grey_Wolf]

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.