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Can anyone explain why Mueller pronounces his name as Muller?

110 posted on 09/11/2020 9:42:14 AM PDT by mylife (Opinions: $1, Today's Special, Half Baked: 50c)

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It probably got anglicized sometime after his great-grandfather August C. E. Müller emigrated from Prussia in 1855.

The umlaut would have had an "ooh" pronunciation, as in Moohler.

-PJ

113 posted on 09/11/2020 9:54:47 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (Freedom of the press is the People's right to publish, not CNN's right to the 1st question.)

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