My whole comment was one in jest. Not one to discredit one form of pronunciation over the other.
I don’t disagree with you that Cam has preferences in how it’s pronounced. However if we are to say that Cam has sole authority to decide how it’s pronounced, then how do we balance that when we consider Cam’s public comments that the French way to pronounce it is “correct” pronunciation but he personally prefers his version?
This whole issue around which pronunciation is correct is nothing new in linguistics and always brings up a lot of debate. We don’t need to look hard in modern vernacular were multiple diverging pronunciations are accepted. We need only to look at country names as an example. Should we all start calling Germany Deutschland or Spain España, or Japan Nipon? What about other non english languages, are French speakers wrong when the refer to Deutschland as Allemagne? Are Americans just completely mispronouncing Porche? Jaguar? Peugeot? BMW?
I’m not making an assertion that one way is the “correct” pronunciation of something and that everything else is wrong. Rather, I take the linguistic approach that so long as a particular pronunciation of a name is widely used, accepted, and understood enough within a particular local then it’s a valid pronunciation of that thing.
I think Cam just decided to butcher the French pronunciation to simply make people conformable with pronouncing it the “wrong” way. Which is to say, I think that was the whole spirit of what Cam was trying to get at with his pronunciation of de Negoce is this: just pronounce it however the fuck you want.