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in reply to a message by NameObsessor
I don't know about the states seeing as I'm not from there, but where I live, most people know a Germanic name when they see one and know that the W should be a V. It's just awareness or something.
And I can see that on this site it has two pronunciations for the Dutch: both VER-ner and WER-ner (with the schwa instead of the e).
I don't know about that. I only know that all the Dutch people I know have Vs only. No Ws.
I checked a phonetic chart for Dutch just to be sure, and there was no W there either.
Maybe a certain dialect or something has the W... I don't know. Have you heard Dutch speakers use it? If you have, where were they from?
A quick google search (for "Dutch allophone W") gives no examples of it. I didn't do an extensive search though ^_^"
Edit: Huhn. It's kind of disconcerting that German and Dutch both get highlighted as names. I don't think races should be used as names, really.
Leo Alexander - b. 2012
Maeve Luna & Tamsin Rose - b. 2014
And I can see that on this site it has two pronunciations for the Dutch: both VER-ner and WER-ner (with the schwa instead of the e).
I don't know about that. I only know that all the Dutch people I know have Vs only. No Ws.
I checked a phonetic chart for Dutch just to be sure, and there was no W there either.
Maybe a certain dialect or something has the W... I don't know. Have you heard Dutch speakers use it? If you have, where were they from?
A quick google search (for "Dutch allophone W") gives no examples of it. I didn't do an extensive search though ^_^"
Edit: Huhn. It's kind of disconcerting that German and Dutch both get highlighted as names. I don't think races should be used as names, really.
Leo Alexander - b. 2012
Maeve Luna & Tamsin Rose - b. 2014
This message was edited 11/25/2014, 11:46 AM
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