Talk:REØ/@comment-2180830-20120103124729/@comment-3191038-20120226014221

''In modern Danish, Faroese, and Norwegian, the letter is a monophthongal close-mid front rounded vowel, the IPA symbol for which is also [ø]. To non-rhotic English speakers, the vowel it sounds most like is the vowel in "bird" or "hurt". Like so many vowels, it has slight variations of the quality called "light" (in Danish søster ("sister") pronounced like eu in French bleu) and "dark" (in Danish "mørke" ("darkness") pronounced similarly to i of English bird); compare light and dark a in English hat and far.[1] However, in the Suðuroy-dialect of Faroese short ø is pronounced [ʏ], e.g. børn [bʏdn] (children). Ǿ, that is Ø with an accent is very rarely used in Danish, to disambiguate against a similar word with Ø. For example "hunden gǿr", "the dog barks" against "hunden gør (det)", "the dog does (it)". Often ǿ is still not used.''