Owing to the presence in the dutch word of the unfamiliar guttural spirant ...... the english spellings have been various and erratic ; how far they represent varieties of pronunciation it is difficult to say .

由于荷兰语中那个对我们来说并不熟悉的喉部摩擦音……其在英语中对应的拼写就呈现出多样化和不规律的特点；至于它们将发音的多样化表现到何种程度，这还难以说清。