Ah right. I had thought perhaps it was some strong British or Irish accent or something like that which works in a way I wasn't expecting. Unfortunately yeah, I don't think the puzzlers can account for pronunciations in foreign languages; the puzzle is presented in English, after all. I do get frustrated when the puzzle requires speaking with a specific American accent, and an Australian, British, or even some accents from other parts of America might not work, and that's the kind of thing that I created my recent "reasonableness" scale to represent: how reasonable is it for the puzzlers to expect a well-educated English speaker to be able to figure out the puzzle without hyper-specific US knowledge.