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[Facts] Re: Jasper?
"Spanish accent" is a bit misleading, because every variation of Spanish has a different "accent"...It would also depend on how well the person spoke English - obviously then the person would use the English pronunciation. But even then a person might have some trouble with English J and "er", so perhaps something like "Jass-pehr".Of course someone were to pronounce Jasper according to Spanish phonetics, it would be something like "has-pehr".The Spanish form of the name is Gaspar.Alexandrina, Annabella, Clementine, Charlotte, Emilienne, Florence, Frederica, Katharina, Mary (May), Maud, Penelope, Rosamund, Theodora (Teddy).
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Thank you! Would it not be unreasonable to sound like Hesper, for some accents?

This message was edited 8/12/2016, 4:35 PM

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I guess so. The sound [æ] in Jas doesn't exist in Spanish — so Spanish-speakers tend to replace it with either [a] or [e] (actually, many American accents replace it with [e] as well).I think it would depend if the person was reading Jasper or hearing someone else pronounce Jasper in a specific English accent.
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This message was edited 8/12/2016, 4:55 PM

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