Hölder and rural

First I mentioned that my advisor, being German, has a pristine pronunciation of the name Hölder.  Later, Yasha was having trouble saying the word rural.  He kept saying rural over and over because it wasn't working, and I said rural over and over to demonstrate how it was done, and then I started saying Hölder over and over.  Mitka pointed out that rural and Hölder have mostly the same sounds.  Yasha concluded that rural should have only one syllable, and if he just rhymes it with the word curl, it works out fine.