So much going on in the world and yet so many rubbish news sources find non-news stories like this.

Just for the record, I pronounce it ‘Spanish Risotto’ and if I want to sound really Spanish, I will call it ‘España Risotto’

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    Here’s another similar question, when pronouncing a city of another country shouldn’t we be saying it as that country says it, Italy has a lot of examples, why even have Naples when its Napoli? its quite a jump, I know history has a big effect on it but if you asked for train to Naples near Italy wouldn’t you get confused looks a bit?

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      What takes the cake for me is our name for the German football champions: Bayern Munich.

      I could understand if we called them Bayern München, the German name. I could understand if we called them Bavaria Munich, the English translation. Yet for some reason we’ve settled on this halfway house name.