and Cabernet Sauvignon was: Michael PrÛnay: Veltliner pronunciation

noone is going to worry too much. ^^^^^ It's not the first time I see this spelling which irritates me insofar that I always rhyme it with (Bonny) Doon.

You are not alone. English, a hybridized tongue (as you know) that changed more in recent centuries than many European siblings, is notoriously irregular in spelling and pronunciation. (I will not now indulge in the #1 newsgroup vice of eagerly repeating cliché examples yet another time.) (Correction: #2 vice -- upstaged recently by people quoting long postings WHOLE, to add a few words of comment.) (Sorry.)

As I said, you are not alone. President of the US during a turbulent period, a few decades ago, was Lyndon Baines Johnson (from Texas, which had been an independent country briefly and in the minds of some of my Texan friends, still is). (That era in the US was, by the way, not without some parallels in Austria's more turbulent early-20th-century history around the Authoritarian Consbreastution and the Dollfuss buttbuttination.)

Johnson would read prepared speeches, and trip over words capable of mistake. He complained privately about "misled," a word he did not otherwise use, that he read out loud as "mizzuld." (He complained, but his speechwriters forgot and re-used it.) (This emerged in later biographical writing.)

Native speakers have difficulty pronouncing English. (Even high officials.)