On: The Swedish phoneme notorious for having a dedicat...

[lukego]

This is the same sound as in "cool whip" a la Family Guy, right? Like the way a southern gentleman would pronounce "wh."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZmqJQ-nc_s

[tengbretson → lukego]

My understanding of it from swedish lessons was that it was kind of like "sh" and "wh" at the same time.

[ethor → lukego]

More similar to the sh sound in shell (am swedish).

[lukego → ethor]

Sorry, hadn't read TFA, was thinking of the "sk" ("skönt") sound rather than "sj" ("sjuk.")

EDIT: Clear as mud now, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9x7C6qeh-SQ.

[henrikschroder → lukego]

Wait, what? Would you pronounce those two words with a different sound? I can't think of any Swedish dialect where that is true?

[gfaure → ethor]

The whole point of this article is that sj-ljudet has a bunch of different realisations, some closer to the initial in "shell" and some closer to the initial in "whip".

[croon → ethor]

Also Swedish, and disagree. GP is close(r).

Are you perhaps from Norrland? Then I see what you're saying.