Nebraska had a sprinter a few years back named Kathy Miiller. Where did she get such an unusual last name?
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OK, the real, absolutely true, not remotely made up, nothing but the facts version of how Kathy Miiller got such an unusual last name... are you ready for this? She was Kathy Travis and married a guy named Miiller!
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heh-heh-heh....
But here's how the Miiller came about. As Pego surmised, the family name was indeed Müller. But when they came through Ellis Island, they filled out a form, and the paterfamilias apparently wrote it so that the u was right on the line and when the immigration officer vetted it he didn't see the bottom stroke and converted the umlauted u into a pair of i's!
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It's amazing how often that happened especially with the Slavic or Hungarian names. Those clerks had a lot in common with LR."A beautiful theory killed by an ugly fact."
by Thomas Henry Huxley
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