My first name begins with the letter Ø, a character that's unique to the alphabets of Norwegian, Danish, and Swedish, alongside other special characters like Æ, æ, and Å, å. This letter also exists in German, though it's represented as ö, Ö there. When the Ø character isn't accessible on a computer or smartphone, it's commonly transcribed as "oe," leading most people to spell my name as Oivind in the absence of the Ø character. The pronunciation of "Ø" is like the vowel sound in the English word "cut."