In reply to: Those renderings ... posted by CJC
who make it possible for people like them to hoard so many vowels.
...One of our daughters asked me, many years ago, if our last names had two vowels. "Ah...actually, one vowel, and one semi-vowel." I think we'd get about the same pronunciation if it was spelled Brnz.
Where the capital of Moravia is Brno.
But I think my favorite Czech surname is "Vlk" (which means "wolf", by the way).