Pray one FOR another ... not TO another. If you want to pray FOR Mary, fine no problem. Praying TO Mary is what is contradictory to Jesus’s teachings. Praying TO anyone other than God is worship.
Check a dictionary. Pray means ask in every other English speaking country in the world. Lawyers are praying to judges all the time in England. Protestant Americans do not own the English language so deal with the fact that I pray TO Mary for her intercession. Catholics pray TO Mary.