That was what made me ask in the first place. I realized that I didn't
even know if they pronounce W and V the German way or the English way.
Or what other different pronunciation rules there might be in his native
tongue.

Howard Winter wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 06:35:28 -0500, tachyon_1@email.com wrote:
>
>   
>> Do me a favour and spell your name phonetically (both first and last) so
>> I know how to 'hear' it in my mind when I read it all the time on this
>> list.
>> I'm pretty good with foreign langs and accents, but I'm sure I'm mangling
>> yours.
>>     
>
> As nobody seems to have answered, this is my attem:  I asked a colleague at work, who was South African, how 
> Wouter's surname should be pronounced (his first name is as it's spelled, with the "W" pronounced as "V" in English) 
> and he said: "oo-yen".  The "e" is quite short, not as if you were saying "Yen" on its own - more like "ynn".
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Howard Winter
> St.Albans, England
>
>
>   
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