He thinks it’s funny. It’s not particularly.
It has gone beyond annoying.
‘I’ve heard it pronounced both ways’ he says. Lame excuse. Any humor has long been wrung out of it.
And isn’t he deaf as a post and openly admits his implants don’t convey sounds reliably 100% of the time? So he really hasn’t ‘heard’ it at all.
In a story about otherwise anonymous people he will endeavor to get the pronunciation of names correct(ed). Why not in this case?