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> (/z/ does not exist in Swedish) It does, but only in the onomatopoetic word "bzzz", as in the sound of a flying insect. And if you were to drop that sounding
by henrikschroder 7y ago
> (/z/ does not exist in Swedish)
It does, but only in the onomatopoetic word "bzzz", as in the sound of a flying insect. And if you were to drop that sounding s, if you said that a fly went "bsss" around you, people would be weirded out, thinking the fly pissed on you or something. So pretty much every Swede can make the sound [z], and can hear the difference between [z] and [s], but only for this single word. It's so weird!