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mikey4444 | 13:39 Sun 08th Jan 2017 | Arts & Literature
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Is is Van GOCK or Van Go, as the Americans insist on ?

For instance, what do Dutch people call him ?

I have always used the former.
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Van goff
Van khooch.
Thats the Dutch Mikey
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Oh dear ! Not quite as simple as I thought !

But at least it isn't the silly Van Go !
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Why can't Americans talk proper, like what I do !

It's a bit like asking how the English would pronounce Gainsborough.

A Georgie may say Gainsbro

A Londoner may say Gainsborah
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Northerners may and will do what they want Zacs, but in your example its the latter for me.

But this is only a teasing question, in the hope that it might raise a general debate. By the way, my favourite singer-songwriter, Joni Mitchell, ever pronounced the artist as Van Go, and she was Canadian !
Van Goch rhymes with the Scottish 'loch'.
The standard Dutch pronunciation of Gogh is close to HOCH to rhyme with LOCH but in his own local accent it may have been different. I normally say GOCH to rhyme with LOCH.
"Van Goch rhymes with the Scottish 'loch'."

That'll be van Gock then. :)
I agree with bookbinder and THECORBYLOON.
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Van Goff.
I prefer vin rouge mesel, like....
// Van khooch.// ZM not bad ZM

Mikey mikey daaahling - other languages have sounds which are not represented in English

Think of a click in Ndebele (Togo I need help here ! ) six to choose from I think. OK it is late - so dont think of a click ( I cant tempt you with Xhosa ? can I ?) Tui ( pronounced Tree ) is tonal

think of bonny scotland and loch - let us represent that as /lox/

OK let us now think of pairs of letter sounded and unsounded
p and b
t and d
f and v
you will notice that the first of the pair is unsounded and the second is sounded

OK so the ch in loch is unsounded /Ch/ or /x/
and so now you have to make up the sounded counterpart / arrrrgh ! /
and that is the gee in Dutch - g as in gogh

sudduv spit and sound -- - - - yup a sound youve never heard or made

Van go =two of them - ignore the 'h'

that was Groningen dialect ( it is a place in Holland)
it may be different in the west ( = amsterdam)

not represented in Arabic I think
( altho it might be a ghayn but that is more a rolled parisian r - Qenawi dialect)

languages I love them especially late at night

Dear Dr Geerlingx in Groningen said to me " no one who is english can pronounce my name" and I said christ you are not joking

please please Mikey if you dont understand a word of this
please dont post - "wot dat den yeah" as an instant AB put-down quip....please as a favour to me

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Peter...I would never do that !

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