<i>That would have been considered disrespectful in my company, and to me personally</i><p>Me, I quickly realized it was about picking my battles.  I could fight every day I lived in England to get people to pronounce it correctly or I could accept a reasonable best effort approximation and move on with my life. I found that most expats&#x2F;immigrants with strange names took the same approach.  These days when I&#x27;m in England or North America I&#x27;ve even started to pronounce my own name slightly wrong to speed up the whole process.  Hell some people I know even preemptively changed their names to something easier to save everybody the effort.<p>Mispronunciations where (almost) never due to malice and my friends converged on a good pronunciation fairly quickly, and that was good enough for me.  Spending a few years of your youth with most people getting you name wrong quickly desensitizes you to such minor details.