[Bring_Back_Shantz]

Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger

You mean like a-bout, a-boot, a-bow-ut, a-ba-oot?

This is a little different I think. That would be akin to arguing that it should be a soft T at the end of about. Or that the b is silent or something.

Also, that opens an entire can of worms.

Basically you are saying none of the rules we have for pronunciations are anything but a suggestion and there is no proper way to say anything. That defeats the purpose of language and leaves us pretty much in anarchy. Could you imagine if no one followed any of the pronunciation rules and just said everything how they want because there is no "proper" way?

No one would be able to communicate because if we don't respect the rules of language it makes language irrelevant.

Yeah, exactly, we need to follow our rules, not Italy's.
That's why most people here say Bruschetta not Brusketta, and why most people here think that unless you're Italian, saying it brusketta sounds pretty pretentious.