It wouldn’t be the first time an English speaker mangled a non-English name
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The closest thing I can find is an old RPG guide that has the explanation that since they know everyone else can't pronounce their names properly, they allow the approximation of the closest others CAN come to those syllables.
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So the first consonant sound in Chewbacca's name as it's pronounced in Shyriiwook isn't 'ch' but 'ch' is the closest a human throat can manage so he deals with it.
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My first girlfriend was Chinese. I never actually learned to pronounce her name, and didn’t even learn that she was deliberately pronouncing it anglicized to avoid her friends messing it up until three months into the relationship.
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