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The former is my family name, and unfortunately following our immigration to the U.S. many people here interpret it as two separate syllables!

• _nalply 7y ago
  Herzliches Beileid!
  • schoen 7y ago
    Danke! I just realized that my post could be interpreted as suggesting that I personally had immigrated to the U.S. from Germany. In fact, my grandfather did. But the two-syllable interpretation has affected every subsequent generation.