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Imposing one's wrong pronunciation on purpose is arrogant, lazy and even disrespectful. Furthermore it's not helping anyone long term.

The only exceptions I see are anglicized alternative names ("Munich" instead of "München") but even then the local pronunciation should be preferred.



> wrong pronunciation

Ah, sorry, but nowadays no pronunciation is "wrong" - that is unspeakable oppression.

We've achieved full Humpty-Dumpty - "it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less."




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