this post was submitted on 07 Feb 2025
443 points (93.5% liked)

Funny

8796 readers
762 users here now

General rules:

Exceptions may be made at the discretion of the mods.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
443
Meanwhile in Sweden (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by M137@lemmy.world to c/funny@sh.itjust.works
 

That's $3 for 15 eggs. Sadly not free-range, only cage-free.

Not sure if this is the best community for this post, does anyone have a better suggestion?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Ägg is not what I expected the Swedish word for egg to be.

[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 2 points 1 month ago

its actually pronounced almost identically

[–] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 2 points 1 month ago

Ä is the swedish way of writing ae: "aegg". Basically identical to the english pronunciation, but the vowel is a little higher in the mouth.

Apparently the English pronunciation is actually adopted from the norse word, instead of the older "Ei" germanic etymology. If English hadn't adopted the Norse pronunciation, it would be closer to "Ey".

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/egg