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by vidarh 1668 days ago
Norway have had at least half a dozen language reforms in parliament that dictate the written language, and so indirectly pronunciation.

E.g. the 1907 reform removed a lot of soft consonants in favour of harder ones (e.g. "løb" -> "løp", "kage" -> "kake").

Most of them, incidentally, reducing the similarity with Danish...