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Originally Posted by Nagoyankee
I'm glad I asked. Anything other than ブ would be very unnatural. In case you didn't know, I'm a native speaker.
On a more important note, ヤコブ isn't the way we write your name if you pronounce it the English way. It's ジェイコブ or ジェーコブ with the former being in more frequent use.
The important thing that I feel the members here aren't aware of is that we go from the sounds, not the spelling, when writing foreign names in Japanese. We re-write the name with the closest sound combinations within the Japanese sound system.
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Ah, thank you a lot for clarifying that. Now it makes more sense! Sorry for my bad information, I've never been told the correct way it works.
Thank you so much again.