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Why did Germans change the spelling of their last names when coming to the US?
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∙ 16y ago
Many migrants from Europe - not just Germans - changed their surnames, especially if they were hard to pronounce in English, or outlandish or comical or embarrassing. From about 1890 until quite recently new arrivals were under a lot of pressure to be '100% American'. For example: there are many different spelling for the name YERGER, YEAGER, YAGER, JAEGER. The name is pronounced totally different in German. The first syllable begins with a "Ya" sound which can be spelled using "Ya" or "Ja". It ends with the rolling-R sound and there is no easy way to spell this in the English language or even phoentically.
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