It used to drive me nuts when BBC newsreader Huw Edwards would pronounce Nicolas Sarkozi as though Edwards was a particularly affected Parisian - nee-koh-la saar-koh-zee, with equal emphasis on all syllables. The logical extension of his approach would have been to pronounce Ian Paisley with a heavy Belfast accent, George Dubya Bush the way any self-respecting Texan would say it, and Silvio Berlusconi as though one were ordering pasta and wine.