On 2018-01-11 1:23 PM, S Viemeister wrote:
> On 1/11/2018 12:16 PM, Bruce wrote:
>> On Thu, 11 Jan 2018 10:13:36 -0700, graham > wrote:
>>> On 2018-01-11 10:03 AM, Bruce wrote:
>>>> That was Van Gogh.
>>>>
>>> *Not* pronounced Van "Go"! :-)
>>
>> No, preferably not And not "Gof" either.
>>
> I can only pronounce it properly when I have a bad cold...
>
My wife's family is from the north of the Netherlands, a town near
Groningen. I have been corrected about the pronunciation of that city's
name. It is hard to do without coughing up some phlegm.