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Norway has an alternative that is the same as the Germans. (175 - hundred and five and seventy) It was more popular in the past, but is still used in many dial

• eitland 5y ago
  I grew up with both the old one and the new one so I sometimes say it the old way and I am almost happy that my kids don't understand it immediately so I have to correct myself. Fun fact: it was actually decided in Stortinget (the supreme legislature of Norway) in November 1950 and implemented in July 1951, as far as I know the only time a matter of how to pronounce something has been decided at that level.
  • vidarh 5y ago
    Norway have had at least half a dozen language reforms in parliament that dictate the written language, and so indirectly pronunciation. E.g. the 1907 reform removed a lot of soft consonants in favour of harder ones (e.g. "løb" -> "løp", "kage" -> "kake"). Most of them, incidentally, reducing the similarity with Danish...