> Often when families immigrated to America they tried to pick a spelling that would allow English speakers to pronounce their name close enough to what they we

> Often when families immigrated to America they tried to pick a spelling that would allow English speakers to pronounce their name close enough to what they were used to that they would understand they were being called. Sometimes the this was a different English word that had nothing to do with the meaning in the original language. This is also the naming process for some places in the new world like Cuernavaca in Mexico