I agree with you, Jonah, mainly. (And I usually agree with you totally!) I am one of the few writers I know, if I may, who write “naivety,” rather than “naïveté.” Amazingly, editors — good ol’ Amurricans — frequently want to change it.

P.S. I also pronounce “niche” to rhyme with “itch.” (I must confess, though, I have a hard time pronouncing “clique” “click” instead of “cleek.”)

P.P.S. One problem with foreign words is that American editors are always doing them incompletely. Tell you what I mean. They want me to write “naïveté,” instead of “naivety,” but they won’t put the two dots over the “i” — they’ll do “naiveté” (just because they don’t know any better). And when I write “Janacek,” people will often rewrite “Janácek.” Well, don’t do that to me: Do “Janáček” or “Janacek.” “Janácek” is nothing — exists nowhere. In for a penny, in for a pound, you know?

Oh, I could go on. And on.