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W is a double-v for us, so our alphabet goes uvw (u ve dobbel-ve), rather than uwv (ju dabbel-ju vi).

Germanic languages vary a bit in their attitude towards w; we Norwegians use it pretty much just as a fancy old-timey v and could frankly drop w from our alphabet without missing anything (just like q is practically never used).

Germans use w the way we use v, and then use v pretty much like f.

The anglo w sound is something we have to learn in English class, and even then a lot of people start to hypercorrect and pronounce even the "v"s in English as their w. It can be wery funny to listen to, or wery frustrating.

Imagine if that money had been spent on building out renewables instead

Us nords have nine vowel letters:

• a e i
• o u y
• æ ø å

and they all are just themselves for a name. Like e isn’t “c with a line” any more than q is “o with a leg”.

They’re also all monophthongs, which is hard to communicate to anglophones who pronounce their vowel letters overwhelmingly as diphthongs. E.g. anglos probably read the vowel letters as

• ey i ay
• åo ju way
• ??? ??? ???

There’s an æøå song which might help.

One local Thai shop had the sense to offer both “$nationality spicy” and “thai spicy”