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11 May 2012 at 3:07pm | IP Logged 
Ellsworth wrote:
I have heard that that way of speaking, with the vowel inserted, sounds *rural* to Finnish people. Do you know whether that is true?


In my opinion it does sound a bit rural but it obviously depends on in which dialect area you happen to live in. I have lived in Tampere and Helsinki and there "kolome" would definitely sound funny. In those areas it's not common at all for people to talk like that. However if you happen to live in an area where everybody more or less speaks like that then it would be considered normal.

When people move permanently from one dialect area to another they tend to change the way they speak so that their original dialect is not so obvious. I guess this is just a way to adjust to the environment. However when they are visiting back to where they originally came from they usually revert back to the local dialect.


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