&gt; 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>Sure. If a large enough portion of English speakers pronounce it that way, it would be a valid pronunciation.<p>What other measure of validity would there be? There&#x27;s no committee to dictate &quot;standard English&quot; (nor would what they say matter if the language actually used doesn&#x27;t reflect their prescriptions), and dictionaries merely describe language as it actually is.<p>&gt; 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>But the pronunciations offered on this site will usually be correct ones. It shows you the words as pronounced by actual people.<p>&gt; There&#x27;s no EE sound in Tokyo, nor Kyoto. There&#x27;s no &quot;awe&quot; sound in &quot;Pocky&quot;.<p>Maybe not in their native language, but there is in English.<p>&gt; 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.<p>Maybe. People probably should be respectful of other cultures&#x27; own names if they can. Though that doesn&#x27;t mean pronunciations distant from the native ones are incorrect in English.<p>&gt; 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.<p>Pronunciations which don&#x27;t follow source language rules are certainly not limited to East Asian or South American words. English speakers aren&#x27;t familiar with foreign orthographic conventions. That&#x27;s to be expected: they are English speakers, not speakers of other languages.