>>When I was living in Germany my last name was McMinn. It is typically Germans calling met Holtzer :o) Here in the U.S., most Americans just say Holzer.
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>Just like they pronounce anyone with last name ending with "...wiesen" as if it were "...wuysen" instead of "...veezen". Somehow both the German "ie" (long ee) and "ei" (uy as in Einstein) are taken as the latter.


You just reminded me of a New Yorker cartoon that (literally) made me LOL on the train yesterday. Two women are standing in a living room and one is telling the other, "We have moved on from Next Einstein to Next Bruckheimer." On the other side of the room an infant is sitting in front of a TV, the screen filled with explosions.