Try having a fairly unusual surname like mine. CORRANCE You get as many variations as there are letters in it from Krantz to Korrans. There is a famous photographer from Edinburgh with the same surname (No relation as far as I can establish) but he pronounces his differently like Sam Torrance the golfer. Once when in France my parents booked into a Hotel and when they got their bill someone had put an acute above the last e (Don't know how to do it in this forum) We can trace the name back to 1590 in England.