Northerners may and will do what they want Zacs, but in your example its the latter for me.
But this is only a teasing question, in the hope that it might raise a general debate. By the way, my favourite singer-songwriter, Joni Mitchell, ever pronounced the artist as Van Go, and she was Canadian !
The standard Dutch pronunciation of Gogh is close to HOCH to rhyme with LOCH but in his own local accent it may have been different. I normally say GOCH to rhyme with LOCH.
Mikey mikey daaahling - other languages have sounds which are not represented in English
Think of a click in Ndebele (Togo I need help here ! ) six to choose from I think. OK it is late - so dont think of a click ( I cant tempt you with Xhosa ? can I ?) Tui ( pronounced Tree ) is tonal
think of bonny scotland and loch - let us represent that as /lox/
OK let us now think of pairs of letter sounded and unsounded
p and b
t and d
f and v
you will notice that the first of the pair is unsounded and the second is sounded
OK so the ch in loch is unsounded /Ch/ or /x/
and so now you have to make up the sounded counterpart / arrrrgh ! /
and that is the gee in Dutch - g as in gogh
sudduv spit and sound -- - - - yup a sound youve never heard or made
Van go =two of them - ignore the 'h'
that was Groningen dialect ( it is a place in Holland)
it may be different in the west ( = amsterdam)
not represented in Arabic I think
( altho it might be a ghayn but that is more a rolled parisian r - Qenawi dialect)
languages I love them especially late at night
Dear Dr Geerlingx in Groningen said to me " no one who is english can pronounce my name" and I said christ you are not joking
please please Mikey if you dont understand a word of this
please dont post - "wot dat den yeah" as an instant AB put-down quip....please as a favour to me