The Scandy languages like long sequences of consonants, and not just for reasons of coding non-Latin sounds with the Latin alphabet.

The SKS in Fisksätra, where I live, is a problem to many immigrants. But the place has a pet name in typical Stockholm style: Fiskis.

So a lot of people call it Fiskis-ätra.

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Check out our orthography: star is roughly pronounced sher-nah. We spell it STJÄRNA. 😄

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