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Posted on August 27, 2003 @ 11:16 in General
A double vowel in Dutch is pronounced long. The double A in "schaap" means it is pronounced as "aah," sort of like the long A-sound in "aardvark" as opposed to the short A-sound in "apparatus."
Actually, I don't even care how you pronounce it (and it's the SCH that proves the biggest hurdle for most non-Dutch speakers), but I would appreciate it if my name was spelled correctly. Lately I've seen some people link to me, misspelling my name with only one A and two Ps. I'm not writing that misspelling out here, because I don't want Google to think it might be right. Now, when you search for that misspelling, it helpfully suggests, Did you mean: "frank schaap", and I like to keep it that way.
Thanks :-)
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