Things You Never Noticed VI: The Undiscovered Detail

[snowblizz]

Aren't those diacritics on thop of A and O, rather than different letters?

No. Proper different letters. Have nothing with A and O respectively to do. In fact Å subs for the O sound in many other languages. So eg English "long" would be in Swedish "lång" and funnily enough are pronounced pretty much the same.

I Think there may be disagreement about hte proper graphemes at least. The Danish/Norwegian version has no risk of being mistaken for a diacritic for example...

I think the fact that Danish and Norwegian layouts swap around the ae and ö disqualifies from any further discussion.
Why is that anyway? Any ideas. Just a "Well we can't do it the Danish way because we are Norwegians damit!"? Would make scandinavian keyboards less messy for one.

They are different letters with their own pronounciation. This band got the wrong kind of attention in Sweden...

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"Tröjan" means "the shirt" in Swedish

Hahahaha.