“-ert” doesn’t mean anything in German that I can think of. Do you mean “-bert” endings?
Ooh, I love your magazine. My favorite section is `How to increase your word power’. That thing is really, really… really… good. – Homer, ``Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington’’
My grandmother’s parents came from Germany and they named her Charlotte. (That’s the German pronounciation, not the English.) But it didn’t last very long before it was Americanized.
My married name is of German origin, but the spelling got changed in the Netherlands. (I believe that’s how the story goes.) The U with the dots on top became a regular U. The K became a C. And so forth. Anyway, it is hardly EVER pronounced right and it is spelled just how it sounds! I understand not being able to spell it because you want to make it look German when it sounds so German, but why can’t people pronounce something that is spelled phonetically?
Sorry. What was the question? Double n’s? Haven’t got a clue. Just know this, if <B>I</B> ever misspell your name, it’s because I had a brain spasm and didn’t notice. My (family given) nickname was misspelled my whole life, so I changed the spelling in my teens just to make it harder on people. I try very hard to spell names correctly.