Originally Posted by
PeteHski
Makes sense. I didn’t even realise Americans pronounced it like that.
There's a British linguist who has a YouTube channel, Geoff Lindsey, whose videos look at things like the differenced in English pronunciation in different countries and areas. He did one on how Americans tend to try to pronounce foreign words more like they're pronounced in the original language than Brits do, like "JAG-wahr" vs "JAG-you-ar" for the Spanish "jaguar", which is pronounced more like "ha-WAHR"
Hence, while I see Si and Dan pronouncing "Battaglin" as "BAT-uh-glin", I pronounce it more like something between "BAH-tah-yeen" and "BAH-tah-leen", because the Italian pronunciation of the "gl" is not like any phoneme in American English.