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minus-square@Mr_BlottlinkEnglish4•edit-22 years ago“Gogh pronounced like loch” crew here to downvote anyone from the “Gogh pronounced like go” crew because that’s just fuckin wrong
minus-square@null_linkEnglish1•edit-22 years agoThe “gh” in Van gogh is the phoneme /x/ which is the same sound as in “loch”, a voiceless fricative sound (“throat clearing” sound). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiceless_velar_fricative
“Gogh pronounced like loch” crew here to downvote anyone from the “Gogh pronounced like go” crew because that’s just fuckin wrong
I thought it rhymed with “off”?
The “gh” in Van gogh is the phoneme /x/ which is the same sound as in “loch”, a voiceless fricative sound (“throat clearing” sound).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiceless_velar_fricative
Well I just didn’t know that.