I'm not German -- this ends up being another, though unrelated, constant difficulty with this name. (It's pronounced like "Whiner.") Family legend holds that w

I'm not German -- this ends up being another, though unrelated, constant difficulty with this name. (It's pronounced like "Whiner.") Family legend holds that when my great grandfather reached Canada and told the immigration agent his Lithuanian name, the agent replied, "I don't know how to spell that. I'm writing down 'Wiener'." Strangers will insist we are pronouncing the family name wrong, though I firmly hold the position that we can pronounce it however we want, since it's our name.