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Help[Opinions] Re: Werner
in reply to a message by araslanka
Well regardless, in other places it would be pronounced with a W. In the states, unless your family is of strong German origin, hardly anyone would say Werner with a V. \:
And actually it's said as both ways; ver-ner in German & verner and also Werner in Dutch. So I guess it all depends on where someone is from (:
I'm personally not crazy about the name no matter which way its pronounced so in all honesty, doesn't matter to me which way its said
And actually it's said as both ways; ver-ner in German & verner and also Werner in Dutch. So I guess it all depends on where someone is from (:
I'm personally not crazy about the name no matter which way its pronounced so in all honesty, doesn't matter to me which way its said
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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.
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.
This message was edited 11/25/2014, 11:46 AM
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