How is "ø" pronounced?

[Tomoyo]

I'm just curious. I've always thought that it was pronounced like the typical "aw" in a heavy New York accent, like:

I thøt dat de Jets will've gøtten deir arses kicked = I thought that the Jets will have gotten their arses kicked

Thøt = thawt

I realize that "aw" is not "ø", but "aw" is the typical representation of that New York vowel sound.

 

[storealex]

I think ø is pronouced sharper than aw, but Im not sure since I don't know the NY accent.

Think of ø as ö in german.

Edit:

å (Å) is pronouced like the beginning of "oh", just without the uww sound in the end and
æ (Æ) is pronouced the letter a in alien.

 

[Doc Tsiolkovski]

Like in "Börlin".

 

[Erik Mesoy]

Huh???

The Norwegian letter Ø behaves much like the english U in "but". (The norwegian U takes the value of the oo in "boot".) "Aw" does not enter into it anywhere.

German ö, yes, pretty darn close that too.

 

[storealex]

No not like that, Professer Turnesol. Like in ökologisch or ökelname.

 

[Doc Tsiolkovski]

I mean the English pronounciation of Berlin, which is as close to "ö" as an English word can be...

 

[Jawz II]

in yumbo yumbo, right?

i say its more like when butt-head used to think about something, you know?

he went: UUUUHHH... kinda like that

his UHHHHHs were usually followed by HUHUHUHUH HUH HUH UH HUH HUH HUH

damn i miss beavis and butthead

 

[boogaboo]

[spam] "ø" is the empty group [/spam]

 

[The Last Conformist]

Doc is right; the long schwa sound of words like "girl" in British English is as close as you get to a proper "ø" sound in English.

French 'eu' is pretty much the same sound.

 

[MaisseArsouye]

å (Å) is pronouced like the beginning of "oh"

In walloon, the sound "å" exists around Liège. They pronounce it between french "a" and "au" :
råbèt = rabbit
måhone = home

In other areas, that sound doesn't exist. But the letter exists in "unified walloon". In my area, we prononouce it "â" or "aû".