Why is the Aztec ruler called Montezuma?, if His correct name is Moctezuma...?

Question

And actually no one in Mexico knows Him by Montezuma, they'll laugh when they hear it...

Answer 1

When you say them they sound kinda similar, so it would be easy for some to get confused.

Answer 2

That is because the Extranjeros Blancos are ignorant de La Raza.

When Aztlán is established and the Gringos are put down, it will be made illegal to call the Great One 'Monte Zuma'. He will be named properly and his name pronounced well, or there will be fire ant hills involved.

Viva La Raza!

Answer 3

They are very similar?

Answer 4

Unfamiliar foreign names are frequently mispronounced because people have difficulty with certain features of the language in question.  Once a vaguely plausible (but wrong) pronunciation is established it sticks, partly owing to ignorance and partly to people's unwillingness to change.

Once people have got something like this wrong, it is a devil's own job to persuade them to change to the correct pronunciation.  A well known case from British history is that of Boudicca, queen of the Iceni  who led a revolt against the Romans in 1st century CE Essex.  For some reason she became known to generations of school children as Boadicea.  And the misnomer has stuck.

Note: even the spell-check on YA advised me to change Boudicca to Boadicea!  Let's try Moctezuma and Montezuma.

Yup.  It advised a change from Moctezuma to Monte ...

If official-type spell checks can't get it right, no wonder the general public continues to get it wrong.  Want to start a campaign to change Yahoo's policy towards spelling of proper names of historical characters?

Answer 5

Oh