Family Tree of Vincent Van Gogh

His dizzy aunt --------------------------------------------------- Verti Gogh

The brother who ate prunes -------------------------------- Gotta Gogh

The brother who worked at a convenience store ---- Stop N Gogh

The grandfather from Yugoslavaia ----------------------- U Gogh

His magician uncle ------------------------------------------- Where-diddy Gogh

The Mexican cousin ------------------------------------------ A Mee Gogh

The Mexican cousin's American half-brother --------- Gring Gogh

The nephew who drove a stage coach ----------------- Wells-far Gogh

The constipated uncle --------------------------------------- Can't Gogh

The ballroom dancing aunt --------------------------------- Tang Gogh

The bird loving uncle ----------------------------------------- Flamin Gogh

An aunt who taught positive thinking -------------------- Way-to-Gogh

The little bouncy nephew ----------------------------------- Poe Gogh

A sister who loved disco ----------------------------------- Go Gogh

And his niece who travels the country in a RV ------- Winnie Bay Gogh

Just Gogh!

this thread needs to JUST GOGH
 
 
 
 
ha ha just kidding
 
 
or yam eye?

It isn't Van Goff (commonly heard in the UK) or Van Go (commonly heard in the US). I pronounce Gogh to rhyme with (Scottish) Loch, and the following excerpt from an otherwise trivial website shows that I might be on the right track.

We are drenched in culture. We are surprised to learn the correct pronunciation of the Flemish painter, Van Gogh. I shouldn't have been surprised since I have been exposed to Flemish but I never put Van Gogh and Flemish together. The final 'gh' is pronounced like you are hawking up a lunger. Never ask a Flemish waiter to describe something on the menu - you will lose your appetite if not your lunch. Thoroughly disgusted, we head back to the room to read.

Apparently the language should be called Phlegmish!
 
In truth, while there are exceptional individuals from both countries who employ the correct pronunciation, neither VAN-GOFF nor VAN-GO is considered correct in van Gogh's homeland of the Netherlands. For the sake of argument (or for the ending of one) the Dutch pronounce his name VAN-HOCKH, with a glottal gh-sound at the end of the word

Larry the IK sensationalist ---------------- *Bo Gogh 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
* BOGO - buy one get one
(US pronounciation)

Karyn

 
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Not sure why this topic is about Van Gogh's family tree, it looks like there were lots of trees! 

I lived in Holland for a number of years but never mastered the gutteral G. A Dutch freind explained "Nederlands is not a language, it's a throat disease."

 
'Vera' - his domineering wife.
 
'Gran' - his Mexican matriarch.