It just bugs me

[Barbara]

I think it is normal that a country adapts names to its own language. Americans pronounce Paris differently than the French, they say Venice instead of Venezia and Germany is called Deutschland here and Allemagne in France.
It doesn't hurt my feelings that you say "Germany"

[critter crazy]

Maybe here we are jsut a bunch of rednecks, but I have never heard it pronounced any other way than I-Rack or I-Ran. The military never called it any different either, and we were being shipped there.