Even the British TV ads for Braun electrical products pronounced the name wrongly as 'Brawn'.
The BBC used to have a department that the hacks could contact for this sort of thing, and in a way in those days beeeb and other broadcast hacks made a decent, if strangled, British attempt at correct pronunciation.
No longer alas. Even on BBC2 you can hear horrible mutilations like my bete noire, 'lonjeray'.
I blame the idle slags who were supposed to be teaching the three Rs between 1965 and 1995 or later. Damn carphounds with their self-expression rubbish. Wasting everyone's money and taking the country backwards.
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