LOL

Similar to pronouncing the name Sotomayor. Another foreign sounding name.

Or Drumpf, another foreign sounding name.

It's just easier. But I'm from Looz-ee-anna so I have some quirks.

I've heard that one many times over the years, typically from good, patriotic 'Muricans.

But nobody pronounces them that way.

Besides, we've all seen West Side Story: we know how Puerto Rico is pronounced in Spanish. And it doesn't make a whit of difference how mainland, English-speaking Americans pronounce it, as long as we know what and where it is. There are waaaay more important issues to think about regarding Puerto Rico than the Spanish pronunciation of the country's name.

We anglicized Rome and Milan and Venice and Florence. But especially those first two.

How much harder would it be to say Rom-ah, or Milan-Oh?

Geez are we lazy as English speakers, or what?

I still remember how "upset" many were when Peking changed into Beijing ..and when Burma became Myanmar

I wonder what Native Americans called this place

If we can't say it easily, we just change it ..

Schmidt becomes Smith

Johanssen becomes Johnson

Bravo to those brave enough to resist

But, geez Rom-Ah is too hard to say? They still pronounce pizza peets-ah. We didn't shorten that to Peets.

it's KONK.

*at least in eddimacated places

like the dog in the Stephen King novel. Originally named after Cousin Joe who owned the property.

In Republicanese, it's Portericko.

Tienes que saber que el Republicanés es un idioma para sí. No se puede comparar con el inglés.

If you're speaking English, how do you pronounce the name of the largest city in Russia? Moskoe or Mahskvah? Etc.

Place names get anglicized, and the same thing happens in other languages. What starts as a mispronunciation becomes the correct version of the place name in that other language.

"Etats Unis."

Rolls beautifully off the tongue.

Just fix it.

And other weak-stressed syllables.