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That's $3 for 15 eggs. Sadly not free-range, only cage-free.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Ägg is not what I expected the Swedish word for egg to be.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Ä is the swedish way of writing ae: "aegg". Basically identical to the english pronunciation, but the vowel is a little higher in the mouth.

Apparently the English pronunciation is actually adopted from the norse word, instead of the older "Ei" germanic etymology. If English hadn't adopted the Norse pronunciation, it would be closer to "Ey".

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/egg

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

its actually pronounced almost identically