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Björk
How is this pronounced? To rhyme w/ work or York? To trill the r or not? Thanks! (Oh, it's in the database)
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I would have to say the same as everyone else. I majored in Swedish, and though I did not study Icelandic, I do know that bjork in Swedish rhymes with the word jerk. (sorry cannot make umlauts on my computer)
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The singer Bjork has stated that it rhymes with "jerk".
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It's true...at least when it comes to Swedish (it's the Swedish word for the tree birch) and I know it's pronounced the same way in Icelandic.
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It's pronounced like Björn, but with a k instead of an n.
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