I absolutely agree, parent comment is completely incorrect. Growing up as an American in Italy, people would frequently try to pronounce my family's names corr

I absolutely agree, parent comment is completely incorrect. Growing up as an American in Italy, people would frequently try to pronounce my family's names correctly. They wouldn't simply say the word as if it were an Italian word. Same for any other name. They pronounce president Biden as Americans would, they don't say "Bee-den" as they would of the word were Italian. Ditto for non-English foreigners coming to Italy. Does GP really think that the Spanish and the French say "guh-nocci" for gnocchi? They don't have the "gn" digraph any more than English does, yet they all pronounce it correctly. The word is the same world-round. Just because it's uncommon enough that each language hasn't bothered to give it is own spelling (ñoci in Spanish, maybe, nhoci in Portuguese, nioki in English) doesn't suddenly mean the word changes in other languages.