I respectfully disagree. By your argument if I can get enough people to pronounce &quot;cat&quot; as dog then dog is the new pronunciation of cat.<p>There are correct ways to say things that people just don&#x27;t know and would likely be happy to be taught. I had a friend that thought &quot;turret&quot; was pronounced &quot;tur net&quot;. Another friend who thought it was &quot;punkin&quot; no &quot;pumpkin&quot;. Both needed to and wanted to be corrected. It&#x27;s disserve to tell people &quot;come to this website to learn correct pronunciation&quot; but then not have it actually be correct.<p>As another example are foreign words and names. There&#x27;s no EE sound in Tokyo, nor Kyoto. There&#x27;s no &quot;awe&quot; sound in &quot;Pocky&quot;. The fact that westerners will go to great lengths to say &quot;Nic ha wha gura&quot; instead of &quot;Nik ah wa gra&quot; or &quot;Ca pu chee noh&quot; but won&#x27;t spend the minimal effort to learn a correct Asian pronunciation is effectively racist. Some will say &quot;but I&#x27;m saying it as it&#x27;s spelled&quot; but since they aren&#x27;t following the same rules &quot;say it as it&#x27;s spelled&quot; for European words it just proves my point.