Talk:Å

message: :: I was also thinking that the town should be moved to its own page, since we have about a reasonable amount of material on each subject. I don't think that anybody will object to that, so I'll do it -- but feel free to say something if that's wrong.
:Moving the town to its own article makes the most sense of all.  Ortolan88
:O.k.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cool Å2 (talk • contribs) 02:49, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  the town Å 

message: Are you sure the letter exists in Greenlandic? The only reason I can find for it in Greenlandic is for Danish names and a few loanwords. 惑乱 分からん 22:58, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Greenlandic

message: It does not look normal. Sometimes you can not see the circle, and there is no space between the A and the circle. --Arigato1 16:46, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It is probably due to a combination of a small font size, your browser typeface (Arial?) and anti-aliasing settings of your computer. If it disturbs you, try tweaking either one of these three. - Marcika (talk) 01:00, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  What is wrong with the wikipedia "Å" 

message: The article states that Å in Danish (my native tongue) is pronounced as ɔ (or ɔ:) (as in RP 'hall'). That's not entirely true though, because Å can also be pronounced as ʌ and as a long ɒ:, as well as a sound that is perhaps a bit hard to explain, but it is quite like in American 'cold' (oʊ) (as the article describes concerning the pronounciation in Norwegian and Swedish), but it's only the first part of the diphtong, without the ʊ-sound. I have, actually, a handout on the Danish sound system (from a university lecture on the pronounciation of classical Greek, but that fact shouldn't matter) that supports this and from which I have borrowed some of the technical details explained above.--Nikolaj Christensen 20:00, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: On a related issue: Danish and Norwegian alphabet contains a recording of the Dane reciting the Danish alphabet. This alphabet is the last (29th) sound in the recording. Valentinian T / C 10:04, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other pronounciations of Å in Danish 

message: The picture of a bank office belonging to the Bank of Åland strikes me as not being particularly illustrative of this article. For one thing, the logotype is barely visible, and there's nothing really special about the "å" in there. Please motivate the inclusion of the picture properly. It seems more lika a way to promote the article about the bank than an improvement of this article.
Peter Isotalo 07:51, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bank of Åland 

message: Probably low priority, but any chance of getting a keyboard picture where the keyboard looks clean?  Thanks, Marasama (talk) 18:53, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Keyboard pic 

message: Is uppercase Å the only accented Latin letter which can be represented in JIS X 0208? --84.62.197.235 (talk) 12:11, 25 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  JIS X 0208 

message: The article states that In Norwegian and Swedish, the long version represents IPA /oː/. In Danish, the long version is pronounced IPA /ɔː/.. Now, I'm Norwegian and I have done my reading on linguistics, and a long Å is hardly pronounced like anything but /ɔː/ in those Norwegian dialects I know. Rkarlsba (talk) 12:00, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation of Å 

message: The article says the following concerning "aa"'s place in the Danish alphabet: 
"a distinction is made between foreign and local words; thus, for example, the German city Aachen would be listed under A, but the Danish city "Aabenraa" would be listed after Z."
This is not true. "Aa" is always alphabetized as "å" when the two "a"'s belong to the same syllable - even if it's pronounced [a]. See §4(2) in the rules of Danish ortography (in Danish). This means that Aachen will appear shortly after Aabenraa/Åbenrå in a correctly alphabetized Danish list or dictionary.--217.157.128.95 (talk) 10:59, 23 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Place in alphabet

message: I was reading a work on molecular chemistry, and it was saying a ligand binding pocket was "9 Å in length", so is this character also a form of molecular measurement, if so, that should be mentioned. Nagelfar (talk) 19:25, 10 October 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Nevermind, I found it; angstroms. Nagelfar (talk) 00:40, 11 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Å" in chemistry? 

message: A exists in the Swedish language as a separate letter from Å. Å is not a "Swedish A", A is a "Swedish A", Å is a wholly different letter.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by AwaweWiki (talk • contribs) 11:37, 7 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Å being referred to as "Swedish A" 

message: Referring to the å as "Swedish a" is very confusing. Swedish has both an "a" and an "å"! They are two very different letters. If you are referring to the "Swedish å" in comparison to the "Danish å" in the IPA, it would be better to say "å" and not "a". It would be like saying the English "v" when referring to the letter "w". They are not the same letter.
I find the "reference" ( referred to as a Swedish a or volle[1]) as highly suspect. I am a native English speaker and have some fluency with Swedish and Danish. I have never once seen nor heard of this letter being referred to as "Swedish A," and what is "volle"? I can find absolutely no references to the term "volle" anywhere.  If this is a "Swedish a" then what is "ä" -- a German A because it has an umlaut? 
It is probably more commonly known as "a-ring" — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.20.131.95 (talk • contribs) 
:I questioned the terms when they were added, but the source does seem to say that. It's available on Google Books, but on my computer the text referring to "å" is cut off at the bottom of the image. As far as I can tell by the top half of the line that is what the source says. But of course the source might be wrong, the section in the book list a number of characters with their alternative names and there might have snuck in an error or two. If that is the only source that use those terms we might consider removing it, if nothing else because of WP:UNDUE or maybe WP:PROPORTION. The terms were added by  (pinging). Sjö (talk) 05:45, 30 September 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I've removed that "or volle" Peggy Smith, Mark My Words: Instruction and Practice in Proofreading, 3rd edn. (Alexandria, Va: EEI, 1997), 78. ... no way of checking but doubt the book says that. And if it does, so what Philip Holmes, ‎Ian Hinchliffe - 2013 don't give it that name, or any name. In ictu oculi (talk) 10:38, 12 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Confusing text: "Swedish a" ? 

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