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Thank you both
I have a feeling "Wladek" is it...I remember that some of the guys he worked with used to call him "Walt" so if Wladek starts with a W instead of a V maybe that's where they got it from.
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YesPoles (like Germans) use "w" to represent the sound of the English "v". Check out the Polish names on this site:
http://www.behindthename.com/nmc/pol.html
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