So much going on in the world and yet so many rubbish news sources find non-news stories like this.
Just for the record, I pronounce it 'Spanish Risotto' and if I want to sound really Spanish, I will call it 'España Risotto'
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Here's another similar question, when pronouncing a city of another country shouldn't we be saying it as that country says it, Italy has a lot of examples, why even have Naples when its Napoli? its quite a jump, I know history has a big effect on it but if you asked for train to Naples near Italy wouldn't you get confused looks a bit?
When travelling, I have always used the language or pronunciation of the country I am in. No doubt, getting most of it wrong. Many times I have been met with the 'Oh, English?' and then the person starts to speak English rather than their native language.
What takes the cake for me is our name for the German football champions: Bayern Munich.
I could understand if we called them Bayern München, the German name. I could understand if we called them Bavaria Munich, the English translation. Yet for some reason we've settled on this halfway house name.