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I totally agree about Bertha! In Afrikaans the pronunciation is like the German, and my mother-in-law, from an Afrikaans family, used it until she grew up and joined an accounting firm which happened to have mostly English staff. Then she changed to BERTHa and married my completely bilingual father-in-law. I never knew her, she died when her son (my husband) was five, and though she seems to have been a splendid person, I do regret her choice of name.