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[Opinions] Re: Werner
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
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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.

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