branmuffin
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All depends. Two francophone "Jacques" I serve with here in the NCR.
Both pronounce differently. One is a New Brunswick Acadian and the other Quebecois. Neither is, like you've stated, pronounced as "Jock" …. one is akin to a "G awe ck", the other is like a "G ack". Soft Gs.
True, regional accents can morph into changes to the original pronunciation. It can be initiated by people of other ethnic backgrounds who either can't or won't try to pronounce correctly. My BIL who is Dutch is named Jan which was pronounced like gun with a hard Y like yard and a truncated vowel sound. Rarely, did people pronounce it properly and called him Yan or Yawn or just didn't bother with calling him by his name and called him Jan as in Jan and Dean. Eventually, you conform to the majority.
Living in Ontario I know Francophones who speak fluent French and even those accents can change from someone who may live 600 km away, Penetanguishine from Smooth Rock Falls.