For me French was a challenge (I was born in Canada). So in the US I took German in High School. Every letter was pronounced. Made life easy. If French spelled like they pronounce they would have a ton of small words. Just my $0.02 US
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I would do a German spelling Bee over a French spelling Bee. Just for the fact of all those extra letters you don’t even use in French. No I am not intending to bash the French language.
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“Diorama Polizei“ 
You forgot Donaudampfschiffahrtselektrizitatenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaftskapitan! 
In normal conversation which would be abbreviated to Donauer Dampfschiffskapitan (Donau dampf-schiffs’ kapitan)
I know, but unfortunately they had to fly in an English back-up, the German operator had been hospitalised with Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis…at first they thought it was just a mild case of Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia 
And ‘Edinborough’ actually being pronounced as ‘Edin-bruh’. And the byzantine logic behind the pronunciation of upper-class English names, where, for example, “Featherstone-Haugh” is pronounced ‘Fanshaw’.
Then there are the midwestern US cities that take European names and intentionally mispronounce them. Sure confuses the out of town folks.
Gallipolis, OH - pronounced gallop-o-lease
Versailles, KY - pronounced ver-sales.
There are others.
And while on the subject of Kentucky - it IS NOT pronounced
Louis-ville . . .
. . . but rather Louie-ville. (Using the French pronunciation, as it was named after the French King, out of gratitude for the French’ assistance during the revolutionary war.)
Similar to the naming of Versailles, KY. (no mater how we locals choose to pronounce it.) And also (La)Fayette Country; Lexington, KY - Home of the Kentucky Wildcats.
And Bourbon County, KY who’s county seat is Paris, KY.
I knew somebody who (without a hint of irony or sarcasm) always pronounced the town of Des Moines as “Dezz Mo-Nezz”.
and that is why parts of the South is dixie-land (dix is French for ten)
Encyclopedia Britannica:
“According to the most common explanation of the name, $10 notes issued before 1860 by the Citizens’ Bank of New Orleans and used largely by French-speaking residents were imprinted with dix (French: “ten”) on the reverse side—hence the land of Dixies, or Dixie Land, …”
Well the Dixie explanation is a new one on me - but makes perfect sense.
The article says ‘most common explanation’, doesn’t necessarily mean that it is the truth.
As they do in the US media never let the truth get in the way of a good story!
I thought it was called Loserville……welcome to the ACC y’all. 
I like Bew fert SC and Boh fert NC, both spelled Beaufort.
It’s actually pronounced Edinburra.
Latest view of mid-Atlantic conflict over pronunciation of element with atomic number 13…more combat images pending over “nuclear/nookaleer”…
Another thing is that Anglo Saxons have a problem with the German word for war. Though spelled Krieg, I’d go broke if I have to give a Euro every time I see it written as Kreig… Balkenkreuz is another such word: often written as Balkankreuz…
some also have problems with the “ie”-combination in English words …
