I am pretty sure I pronounce it that way, and I would be okay with it if someone giggled at me. I am not sensitive to being laughed at or even mocked if it is in good nature. If you laughed and said I was an idiot, probably not so much. But I have a number of things I pronounce where others say, "I thought it was pronounced [this way]" and I reply, probably, but I'm generally quite ignorant about how precisely to say some words even though I am a pretty good communicator in general.

So what would happen if you let yourself laugh and be honest about why you find it funny. IME with my T, he kind of likes it when I "school" him and he doesn't take himself so seriously.