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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steve C" data-source="post: 3380132" data-attributes="member: 56622">Sometimes pronunciations change when a name adapts to what you folks in Europe likely regard as our alien Yank culture <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />.  Leupold is likely an example.  They may well have had to change when Fred Leupold got over here from Germany.My name underwent a similar name pronunciation metamorphosis when my great grandfather got here form Scotland.  My last name in Scotland  is pronounced Shane (at least according to Grandma <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />).  Over here Sheen was as close as it got, so Sheen it remains today.  Going through the first day in class I got used to following along the alphabetical list as the prof got out of the B's and into the C's.  You would not believe how many ways my last name can be mispronounced <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />.  It is what I call a phonetically challenged name.So I guess Leupold's current pronunciation...it has been official company policy to call it Lew-pold...may well be the result of cultural assimilation.</blockquote>

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