I was shocked and offended when I heard President Reagan greet the president of Mexico with the time-honored "Mi casa est su casa". He pronounced it 'cazza'. I still don't understand how a Californian - on the Mexican border - could get it so wrong.

However, my son in law made a point. He said, "You mean that we should all pronounce foreign names and words with the correct intonation and pronunciation? What about Chinese?"