I've found it fascinating, plus I get a kick out of it every time I hear you or Aubrey reading something

This is shocking to me, my family listens to it on the radio every year!

"you grew up in seattle, why are you complaining about the winters here?"

because they suck!

310! So excited to eventually read the whole thing!

Such a blatant let-them-eat-cake move, I shouldn't be astonished and yet

You see this all the time with all sorts of written historical records. I've got a great grandmother with a French surname but I don't know what it actually was because it's spelled differently on every historical document I have of hers. And that's a name with roman letters!

3) Ellis Island saw thousands of people a day, they likely didn't stop to double check spelling
4) even if they had, it's entirely possible immigrants coming in weren't literate (or as you've pointed out, maybe couldn't read roman letters because why would they if that's not their language)

Authority didn't have much to do with it considering
1) lots of immigrants felt pressure to anglicize their surnames to fit in and get work
2) people working at Ellis Island and recording names absolutely did not know how to understand & write all the languages spoken by the immigrants coming in

Abolish is a big word for Elmo

Congratulations! Is the blown glass part detachable?

It's absolutely possible! We've done it before! It would just take a massive amount of funding to build and maintain the infrastructure required for consistent and reliable railway systems in North America. Of course, there are many companies here who don't want people to be able to travel by train.

Tempted to use
"Thomas the Weather Wizard" as my new band name