Back in my previous life as a CPA, I had a client who had the pronunciation on his name on his business card. Looks like this could be a good idea.

Our last name is German. In German when there is a two vowel combination, the second vowel is pronounced. Our community has a strong German heritage and they say that years ago that German was as likely to be spoken on the streets as English. Many streets and companies have German names and people pronounce them correctly.

An example would be Weinbach would be pronounced like winebok, not weenbok

Sooo.......why can't they pronounce our last name correctly???

My first name is Elaine (not a German name, so pronounced E-lane, not E-line). Not extremely common, but somewhat. It's more common here in the Midwest than it was in in the South. There was the character on Seinfeld (german name pronounced signfeld, not seenfeld). But just recently, I realized that an acquaintance here, that I've known for 6 or 7 years was calling me, El-a-nay. What to do?