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[Facts] neither shell nor chell :-) - Listen!!
Hi Winter Roisin,Both the Swedish and the Norwegian pronunciations are somewhere in between shell and chell, and the Danish pronunciation is kyell.Listen to the Swedish pronunciation here:
http://www.nordicnames.de/z_kjell_svenska.mp3Listen to the Norwegian pronunciation here:
http://www.nordicnames.de/z_kjell_norsk.wavListen to the Danish pronunciation here:
http://www.nordicnames.de/z_kjell_dansk.mp3/ Satuhttp://www.nordicnames.de/
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ahh thanksI was once acquainted with a Kjell who was born here in the US and pronounced it "chell." I guess his parents probably came from Norway. "Chell" is about as close as I could get to that sound.
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It still sounds like shell to me...
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