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> I immigrated to the US many decades ago. A bit over a decade later, I
> thought it was time to do the citizenship thing. I.N.S. gals TELLS me
> I should change my name because it is just too long for the US.

Yeah, my father ran into the same thing, only he fell for it. Changed his
name from "Harald Hans Franz Friederike Willhelm Bange" to "Harald John
Bange". If not for that, I probably would have been named Hans. I often
wished for a less common name when I was younger. It wouldn't have made
pronounciation of my last name any better, but at least it wouldn't have
mixed two different sets of phonetics. My grandfather did always call me
"Yahn", though....

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John Bange
'90 Vanagon
"Keine Bange, wir holen die Zange!"