I am surprised to hear that anyone ever acceptably said "Mar-sales" or "Lions". You'll be telling us that (outside lower military ranks) Ypres was pronounced "Wipers".

I would expect to read Longfellow's poem with an approximation of the name as he would probably have rendered it: "Higher-woth-er".

Boadicea is often a source of disagreement.

Surely "mayonnaise" is "may:naize".

What about "lingerie"?

The late father of a friend of mine could (and would) reduce a chemist's shop to a standstill for about half an hour with a lecture on classical Greek pronunciation when buying a tube of the toothpaste "Kolynos".

But the ignorance and arrogance of the Shrub fails to astound me.