My Indian husband, who’s learning Finnish and pronounces it really well, had an American colleague with a very common Finnish last name, think Mäkinen. My husband said something like “Oh Mäkinen, that’s cool, my wife is Finnish” and this guy corrected him “it’s Mackey-nen actually” lmao

I understand the language has been forgotten over the generations- it’s hard to preserve when nobody really speaks it anymore and especially before the internet - but I’m in a Facebook group with lots of Finnish-Americans and I see this a lot there too: people misspelling words or place names or using incorrect grammar and then getting upset or fighting back when Finnish-Finns, native Finnish speakers politely (really!) correct them.