Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term
West Frisian
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Feb 17, 2013 14:53: Samuel Murray changed "Language pair" from "English to Frisian" to "English"
Feb 17, 2013 14:54: Samuel Murray changed "Language pair" from "English" to "English to Dutch" , "Restriction (Native Lang)" from "fry" to "none"
Feb 24, 2013 07:45: Ron Willems Created KOG entry
Proposed translations
Netherlands
Your IT translation partner for Dutch
Native in: Dutch (Variant: Netherlands) 
Works in: English to Dutch
Fries
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westfriesische_Sprache
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Frisian_language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Frisian_Dutch
Westerlauwers Fries (Westerlauwers Fries: Frysk) is het Fries dat gesproken wordt in de Nederlandse provincie Friesland en een aangrenzend deel van de provincie Groningen. Deze taal wordt doorgaans Fries genoemd en ook in dit artikel wordt hiermee de Westerlauwerse variant bedoeld.
http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westerlauwers_Fries
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Netherlands
47 years of Engineering Experience
Native in: Dutch (Variant: Netherlands)
Works in: German to Dutch, English to Dutch
West-Fries
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Note added at 1732 days (2013-02-17 15:03:30 GMT)
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A good explanation is given in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Frisian_language
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: Op diezelfde Wikipedia-pagina staat "Not to be confused with West Frisian Dutch". Die laatste is de gangbare Engelse benaming voor 'West-Fries'.
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Discussion
You have a West Frisian language (Westerlauwers Fries, Fries) and a West Frisian dialect (West-Fries)
The West Frisian dialect (Dutch: West-Fries) is a Dutch dialect spoken in the contemporary West Friesland region, Wieringen, Wieringermeer, the coastal area from Den Helder to Castricum, and the island of Texel. It is a Hollandic Dutch dialect but has affinities to the Frisian language.
Het West-Fries (West-Fries: Westfriesk of Westfries) is een verzamelnaam voor een aantal Nederlandse dialecten die gesproken worden in de provincie Noord-Holland, meer bepaald in de regio West-Friesland.
Ook de polders benoorden het oude West-Friesland (Wieringermeer, Anna Paulowna), de kuststrook van Den Helder tot Castricum
http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/West-Fries_(dialectgroep)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Frisian_Dutch
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I think, by the way, that your Frisian colleague was right, as (s)he should be. When I hear 'West-Fries', I think of the dialect that is spoken in Noord-Holland (and the people who live there). I would never use 'West-Fries' for the language everybody in the Netherlands calls just 'Fries'.
In international and/or linguistically advanced company, to distinguish from Ostfriesisch as it's spoken in Germany, probably "Westerlauwers Fries" should be used.