I used to wonder this when I was little.

My partner is French. It’s recently been annoying me that in UK we don’t pronounce Paris ‘Pa-reeee’ like the French do. It’s their name, why are we not saying it like them. The same for them with London and Londres.

I’m all for saying it the correct way, we are after all in the future now, we can correct these things.

But saying ‘Pa-reee’ for Paris just sounds pretentious, so I don’t.