Talk:Ø

message: I've added a comment on "Ø" as a Danish word, throw it out if it's uninteresting. In Norwegian "Ø" has the same meaning; however I'm not sure whether "Øy" or "ø" is used more frequently, probably both would qualify. In Swedish it is, of course, "Ö".
::Ø for island in Norwegian would be very archaic, from the "Danish age". -- Egil
:::It's still commonly used in dialects, it's not entirely from "the Danish age" as in norwegian this use exsisted before this as well Thor erik (talk|contrib) 13:40, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  A Danish word 

message: "Some Danes and Norwegians take offence" is NPOV.
-- Toby 23:36 Mar 11, 2003 (UTC)
::No, it is not. -- Egil
Have you read the page on NPOV?
So long as some Danes and Norwegians take this offence, then it's NPOV to mention this and explain why.
We can also explain why some think that it's silly to take offence (or whatever other opinions are).
-- Toby 02:53 Mar 18, 2003 (UTC)
:It is an undeniable fact that some Danes and Norwegians take offence at the notion that the letter is a modified "O". It may be a fact that many people dislike, but it is still a fact.
:Oh, and if I wore a certain Danish name and somebody changed its ø into an o I might decide to tell them exactly what they had just called me. 
:I believe that a warning against fumbling with unknown letters is appropriate.--Troels Nybo 20:14, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Also in standard Norwegian and Swedish. Btw, I think that a scandinavian talking about the other scandinavian variants æ/ä , ø/ö often would call it a "Norwegian/Danish ä" or "Swedish ø" or something like that.
Unlike the english language, in scandinavian, vowels are pronounced exactly as written. As an example, in norwegian, the five first letters in the alphabet would be read "a", "be", "se", "de" and "e". Same with ø, it's simply read "ø".
In english, "ø" sounds pretty much like "Uuh". 80.212.251.253 17:02, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

text: I have added IPA template and english example, hurl Thor erik (talk|contrib) 13:59, 14 June 2010 (UTC)

text: The disambiguation page already mentions the use of "Ø" (or a similar character) as a diameter symbol.  --Ingeborg S. Nordén 16:22, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  NPOV issues 

message: Added the fact that Ø was missing in standard editions of older operating systems. In MS-DOS, if a Norwegian codepage wasn't installed, my name could never be rendered correctly (even if it was stored the right way in a text file, when the Norwegian codepage was installed), which always annoyed me. This happened even if the keyb no command was invoked; something like mode con codepage prepare (which used memory) had to be run in as well. If anyone can describe this in a more accurate way (I am not sure I remember all the details) the sentence should be improved. This is, as far as I remember, still a problem when switching between command-line view and Windows progams (such as Notepad and Edit) in more recent Windows versions. Not sure about the latest WinXP though. I think this merits a sentence in this article (though not a discussion post this long...) Jørgen 20:14, 24 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: You're telling me!  Before Windows revised the codepage, writing Danish and Norwegian on an American PC required me to run a batch file that substituted æ/ø/å for other characters I typed.  --Ingeborg S. Nordén 16:26, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Missing in older codepages 

message: Nothing about MOnty Python and the Holy Grail's "A møøse bit my sister..."?  Churchh 15:14, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That's what Uncyclopedia is for.  (The Swedish Chef article itself already mentions the use of "ø" in Bork Bork Bork, by the way.  Do the articles for other foreign letters mention their use in fictional languages?)  --Ingeborg S. Nordén 16:19, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Python 

message: Does this letter have a name? Is it the same as its pronunciation? The article doesn't clearly state either and simply refers to it as "Ø." Whether or not it has one should be added. I realize that it was mentioned above.
Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. Lowtech42 06:36, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The name is mentioned here -- Fyslee/talk 22:13, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  I'm guessing that "slash o" is the native name for it as well? Lowtech42 06:36, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: A common misunderstanding. Danes and Norwegians don't consider it a modified "O" but a completely distinct letter, so it is referred to simply by the vowel sounds it makes (same system with Æ and Å, btw). Danish and Norwegian alphabet contains a recording of the Dane reciting the alphabet. It is the second-to-last sound. Valentinian T / C 07:09, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name of the letter 

message: how to pronounce this letter? West Brom 4ever (talk) 02:09, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Quite like the italic vowels in heard, bird, murder, blurt, jerk, nerd, etc. if you apply some American sound enthusiam. MURGH disc. 14:46, 24 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: If you happen to know French, it's similar to "eu", if you happen to know German, it's similar to "ö". 惑乱 Wakuran (talk) 22:18, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Or for english speakers, Hurl is a good example :) Thor erik (talk|contrib) 14:04, 14 June 2010 (UTC)

text: That's maybe why "hurl" ended up out of the article. In many dialects it's pronounced , with no vowel at all but rather a syllabic "r". Dan ☺ 14:31, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  pronunciation 

message: The common comparison of Ø's pronunciations to [ɻ] is unfortunate and wildly inaccurate. Repeating this information will only serve to confuse people's natural articulatory intuitions. I have changed the statement to a useful description of the general articulation of the sound in terms of English phonemes. ᛭ LokiClock (talk) 04:25, 20 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Whereabouts was the comparison with [ɻ]? I can't see it in the edit history. Hayden120 (talk) 04:48, 20 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Ah, it appears to have referred to non-rhotic R, or [ɜ]. I have seen this simplified, though, coming back around to non-rhotic English speakers pronouncing the vowel as an [ɻ]. I would say that the new description is still more accessible, given that it doesn't require familiarity with the taxonomy of English dialects. ᛭ LokiClock (talk) 00:51, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Still, describing the sound of ø as [ɜ] as is done in ths article is wildly inaccurate (not to mention the amateur "pronunciation guide" in the introduction). This whole article is a mess and should be rewritten, using proper linguistic categories. I can try, but are there other opinions about this? --Thathánka Íyotake (talk) 01:00, 3 September 2011 (UTC)

text: Or I could start by putting a template on. Hereby done. --Thathánka Íyotake (talk) 05:58, 3 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Here's another opinion: Since [ø] ≠ [ɜ], the whole "Sound value in British English" section is rubbish, and I shall therefore comment the whole mess out forthwith. Somebody can describe the pronunciation better. This I know as several users have done it here on the Talk page. Kelisi (talk) 18:23, 26 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fundamentally inaccurate description of articulation 

message: An anonymous user 76.241.144.211 added the alternative name "oscar", and nothing else. I'm presuming it's vandalism, as I've found no other reference to this, and the Citation Needed has been sitting since January. So I'll delete it.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Giantflightlessbirds (talk • contribs) 11:07, 21 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Oscar 

message: Southern Sami also uses the letter ø in Norway. In Sweden, ö is used instead.--195.0.221.197 (talk) 19:14, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Southern Saami 

message: Most entries under "Symbol" refer not to the letter, but to the visually similar signs for diameter and empty set. --82.113.122.166 (talk) 12:53, 17 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Section "Symbol" needs cleanup 

message: This article should mention Brøderbund Software, Inc., a subsidary of The Learning Company. After all, the name Brøderbund uses the ø. Yusheng02 (talk) 07:38, 11 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Brøderbund should be mentioned in this article 

message: Maybe I'm asking in the wrong place, but it seems that a common practice is to use this letter to represent zero in order to distinguish it from capital O.— Vchimpanzee •  talk • contributions •  22:21, 25 November 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: That's a different character that's discussed Slashed zero. —Eyer (If you reply, add  to your message to let me know.) 22:35, 25 November 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Should we have a hatnote or something?— Vchimpanzee •  talk • contributions •  19:30, 26 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Zero 

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