I didn't bring up the Erk one, that isn't that difficult to pronounce. With the lack of intelligence in our family, the first Eck to come to America from Germany, named Eckenbacherswartzendruber, was shortened to Eck, for fear of future embarassment of misspelling our own name............Great great great great great Grandpa probably thought he'd never run into someone not able to pronounce the shortened version...........