[martyvis]

My Mum is an Australian Yvonne and married my Dutch father Jan. When we spent a whole year in the Netherlands back in 1971, Dutch acquaintances would always pronounce her name something like Yuh-vonna, quite different to how in English it is said like Ee-vonn. (My Dad's name is pronounced like Yun of course)

And yes as a 7 year old Aussie it was interesting learning that the digram "ij" was the 25th letter on the Dutch alphabet

[gpvos]

That's strange. Standard Dutch pronunciation of that name, transliterated back to English spelling, would be Ee-vonna.

[breakingcups]

I know several Yvonne's and we'd all pronounce it Ee-vonna.