English people are bad at mathematics $\implies$ most great mathematicians were not English $\implies$ most important mathematical objects are named after non-English people.
For example:
- Today I discovered that “Fresnel” has a silent “s”. I've been pronouncing it wrong all these decades, because I've only ever read about it in books.
- I read all of Fermat's Last Theorem without realising that the “t” is silent.
- The apparently correct way to pronounce “Galios” just blew my mind!
- To this day I still don't know which way is the correct way to pronounce “Gauss”.
Is there some kind of dictionary somewhere which lists the correct pronunciation for all these foreign names? Wikipedia sometimes gives the pronunciation (e.g., it claims that Lie algebra is in fact pronounced “lee algebra”). But very frequently it doesn't.
One source is Pronunciation of Mathematicians Names.