April 3rd: Ö is for.... the end of the alphabet... time for a beer

The final of the 32 letters of the Icelandic alphabet is Ö

Here's a travelade guide.

I realised while doing this that the Icelandic braille alphabet must also be different.

This is used as a grammatical device to replace A in the names of places.

Öl is Icelandic for beer, which I may have to celebrate finishing this alphabet.
Z is no longer part of the alphabet, as described in this blog post, which comes at the end of another blogger's Icelandic alphabet project.

Here's a pronunciation guide for the whole lot...



I quite like this one as well...

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