Is It Van Gogh or Van Gogh?
But There's Only One Standard Pronunciation in British English: Ee-Myoo. the Name “Van Gogh” Has Three Proper Pronunciations in American English, According to...
But there's only one standard pronunciation in British English: EE-myoo. The name “Van Gogh” has three proper pronunciations in American English, according to most standard dictionaries: van-GOH (the most common), van-GOKH, and van-KHOKH (which comes closest to the Dutch).
Is it Van Gogh or van Goff?
In the UK: Van Gogh is pronounced "Van Goff" (can you feel the Dutch give a collective smirk?) In the US it is even worse, as they say "Van Go" (sounds a little snooty and is still wrong!) In the Netherlands, the fatherland of Van Gogh, they say "Van Ghhh - ou - ghhh" .
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Vincent van Gogh, in full Vincent Willem van Gogh, (born March 30, 1853, Zundert, Netherlands—died July 29, 1890, Auvers-sur-Oise, near Paris, France), Dutch painter, generally considered the greatest after Rembrandt van Rijn, and one of the greatest of the Post-Impressionists.