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Re:Voltswagen of America by saberdancer on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @02:03PM (#26638028)
Volt uses "W" sound instead of F, because Volt comes from the name of Italian physicist Allessandro Volta. Italian sound for V is W or english V.

Are there proper German words that don't read V as F? I've been lead to believe German is strict with phonem/letter combination.

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Re:Voltswagen of America by zwieback on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @04:55PM (#26640349)
Excellent question, running through a few options in my mind "Version and Variation" come to mind. I'm not sure those qualify as a proper German words, probably not.
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Re:Voltswagen of America by tomjakubowski on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @05:48PM (#26641004)
Is my understanding correct that loan words are usually pronounced according to the donor language? (e.g. "das Handy") I seem to remember V is special somehow too, for historical reasons.

If I am reading Duden right, Version is directly a French loanword:

https://www.duden.de/rechtschreibung/Version

while Variation is "influenced" by French:

https://www.duden.de/rechtschreibung/Variation

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