Skip to main content
2 of 2
added 130 characters in body
herisson
  • 84.5k
  • 9
  • 216
  • 368

The use of W to represent /v/ is not an English convention, so it only happens in words/names where another language does it. The most commonly encountered language where this happens is German. It also occurs in Polish.

Wladimir Klitschko is, according to Wikipedia, a German transliteration of his name in Russian, Владимир Кличко.

Some other examples of words taken from German where W can be pronounced as /v/ are Weltanschauung and Umwelt.

herisson
  • 84.5k
  • 9
  • 216
  • 368