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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our Germanic, ‘W’ initial name should be pronounced with a ‘v’ sound. That’s just silly in an English speaking country. [/quote]

[b]Is it silly when people pronounce Jorge as hor-hey instead of more like George? In English J isn’t pronounced like an H.[/b][/quote]

Okay. I have to speak up about this one. OP are you absolutely sure if this person’s ethnicity? I ask because if they’re if Portuguese origins, then Jorge is definitely pronounced like George. In Portuguese the name sounds like Georgie but a native Portuguese speaker would be very confused if you tried to convince them that J is supposed to make the H sound even though that’s not how any J-words are pronounced in Portuguese.

OP, could part of this be ignorance on your part? You’re so sure people are mispronouncing names. Maybe you’re not aware that there are different languages in the world and Portuguese and Spanish are different languages? [/quote]
Thanks PP for the clarification. A few years ago I met a Brazilian man whose name was Jose and it was pronounced Josay not Hosay like in Spanish. [/quote]

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